3D-printed dummy landmines teach subtle skills
Abandoned landmines injure or kill hundreds of people around the world every year. Electronic training mines could make mine clearance safer
Giant superconducting ring takes a road trip
A 15-metre-wide ring of magnets to be used in experiments on subatomic particles is travelling by road, river and sea to its new home at Fermilab in Illinois
Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job
Long periods of desk work or TV viewing can slash your life expectancy, even if you work out every day. So what can you do about doing nothing?
Photo app lets you swipe to view a scene from any angle
A smartphone app catalogues photos according to the angle from which they were taken, letting the user swipe to circle a scene à la The Matrix
Skin-deep modelling holds key to natural digital faces
Fantasy films could soon be wowing us with lifelike CGI faces that are faithful down to individual skin cells
Mindscapes: First man to hear people before they speak
PH is the first case of a person who hears speech before seeing a speaker's lips move. His badly dubbed world reveals timing mechanisms in the brain
No more excuses over switch to clean energy
Despite government indifference, renewables are taking over the world. Imagine what could happen with some serious backing
Happy birthday boson! Six outstanding Higgs mysteries
A year on from the discovery of the particle that endows others with mass, physicists are still joyfully wrestling with some of its more intriguing mysteries
Astrophile: Clingy planet makes stellar parent flip
In a super-fast solar cycle, the star Tau Boo swaps its magnetic poles at least every two years, and a big, gassy offspring may be to blame
Cockatoo cracks lock with no prior training
The bird removed a pin, a screw and a bolt, before turning a wheel and releasing a latch – all to reach a nut
Citizen cartographers fill the gaps in maps
Using OpenStreetMaps, volunteers have brought free, much-needed collaborative maps to far-flung developing areas
There may already be aliens on Mars
The likelihood of contamination from Earth may ironically be a boost to the search for Martian life
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