Wild dogs “vote” with their noses: African packs “sneeze” to make decisions
Humans are still evolving — and we’re using the changes to weed out Alzheimer’s
Supplement boost turns mice into fat-burning machines
Why is yawning so contagious?
Your attractiveness may be down to how you smell
Introducing ‘dark DNA’ – the phenomenon that could change how we think about evolution
Star Trek-style holodeck for mice reveals how brains produce mental maps
A cure for fear itself? Scientists hack the brains of mice to delete memories
NASA is saving us all from Yellowstone supervolcano
Tiny bubble-fuelled robots could deliver drugs inside human bodies
UK government offers £4.6 million bounty for facial-recognition system
Meet Chilesauraus: A Mr Potato Head dinosaur that moved from meat to veg
The royal jelly of bees can help heal wounds, study finds
Owl wings could be the answer to noise pollution
These bio-batteries are the future power source the world needs
Humans and bees are more similar than you think
Two degrees too many: is Earth edging towards evisceration?
Scientists discover how to make food using just air and electricity in Star Trek-style ‘protein reactors’
This guy rescuing his Airpod is the noblest thing you’ll read all day
Nature vs Nurture update: Social mice subdue their violent urges
What is a memory? Scientists unravel how our brains create “time windows” of the world
Google’s arch nemeses are mosquitoes in California
This chip beams images onto the brain to help the blind see again
This ‘soft’ 3D-printed heart throbs and pumps blood just like the real thing
Scientists have used CRISPR to store a GIF inside the DNA of a living cell
Clever plants turn vegetarian caterpillars into bloodthirsty cannibals
Behold: the double-headed space worm
Annoy a raven, and it’ll shun you for at least a month
Scientists read monkey minds to draw eerily accurate portraits
Shape-shifting pasta unpacks itself on your plate
The brain starts to eat itself when it can’t sleep
ARM fights paralysis with brain implant chips
Endurance drug makes mice run for 70% longer
Brain cancer patients live longer with this electric skull cap
Artificial blood should be a lot easier to produce from now on
Scientists have uncovered a whole new lung function we didn’t know about
Robots might soon be clothed in human flesh
What is this, a treadmill for ants? (Yes, yes it is.)
Could woolly mammoths be gracing the planet once more?
Virtual-reality tumour gives researchers a whole new way to study cancer
Behold the MIT-engineered stomach acid battery
Early results of NASA study show the stress of space travel
Bill Gates: World is “tragically unprepared” for pandemics, and terrorists could benefit from it
Reverse ageing by pumping yourself full of young people’s blood for $8,000
Mice turn into predatory killers at the flash of a laser
10 NHS patients to get cutting-edge bionic eyes
Hospital gets first biofabrication unit to 3D print bones and tissue
This might be why peer review is struggling
Could apps and implants replace pills and prescriptions?
Fat-craving gene uncovered with all-you-can-eat korma study