Robot frogs' sexy signals lure hungry bats to attack
Hunting bats don't just listen out for male frogs' mating calls: they can also use echolocation to detect when the frogs inflate their throat sacs
Experiment tests whether universe is a hologram
A new device searching for fundamental units of space and time has officially started taking data, and could reveal new features of the nature of reality
And now the weather, featuring climate change blame
A new technique connecting individual weather events with the impact of greenhouse gas emissions could bring climate change into everyday weather reports
Your death microbiome could catch your killer
Identity, time of death, cause of death, even whether a corpse has been moved – the body's trillions of microbes could reveal it all
Europe launches two satellites into wrong orbit
Two satellites destined for the Galileo global positioning network may have to burn most of their fuel to get back into formation, or be replaced
Every living thing in the Antarctic Ocean mapped
A new atlas draws on thousands of records reaching back to the 18th century and describes more than 9000 species, ranging from microbes to whales
Vibrations in rings reveal Saturn's inner secrets
Eavesdropping on Saturn's rings has given us clues about surprises in the gas giant's interior
Swap bad memories for good at the flick of a switch
Hate that holiday because you spent your whole time arguing? There may be a way to overwrite your reminiscences if what works in mice works in humans
Sliding stones of Death Valley: Rocky riddle resolved
What causes boulders to glide hundreds of metres across a desert lake bed? Time-lapse footage and smart rocks have helped Ralph Lorenz crack the puzzle
Source of sun's power revealed by ghostly particles
The first detection of neutrinos produced by fusion in the sun confirms that our star has been stable for millions of years
Supernova find backs dark energy and universe expansion
The first evidence that type Ia supernovae are thermonuclear explosions solidifies one of the cornerstones to the discovery of dark energy
Schrödinger's cat caught on quantum film
The patron animal of quantum theory poses for a unique portrait in which the camera and the sitter don't share a single photon – except by entanglement
Fish reared on land replay the transition to four legs
Unusual fish with lungs have developed walking techniques and bodies like those of the ancestors of four-legged animals after being raised on land
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