Militant Filipino farmers destroy Golden Rice GM crop
400 famers stormed a government-owned field, destroying a genetically modified crop they fear will contaminate their crops and poison consumers
Coding for brain chips gives cognitive computing boost
A new programming approach makes it easier for coders to wire up brain-like chips, opening the door to computers that can better sense their world
Zoologger: How to persuade a giant panda to have sex
As Edinburgh Zoo knows, the endangered Chinese bears are reluctant to mate, but new research shows the males may just need some encouragement… and competition
Accidentally cut your ear off? Just 3D print a new one
It's way too late for Vincent van Gogh, but cutting off your ear is a much less impressive gesture now you can get a new one printed
Not like us: Artificial minds we can't understand
We have created a completely new form of intelligence, though no human can fathom how it thinks and reasons. By Douglas Heaven
Robotic plant learns to grow like the real thing
A new system mimics the behaviour of roots and could help create robots that can adapt to many different facets of their environment
Feedback: But can the phone phone?
The smartphone that solves Rubik's cube, 100 per cent British chicken, the desk fan that isn't a fan until it's assembled, and more
Is there hope for the bees?
A harrowing film about the plight of bees, More than Honey somehow manages to avoid a sting in the tail, with a near-happy ending and an important lesson
Camels charged with passing MERS virus to people
Antibodies to MERS, the deadly coronavirus that sprung up in the Middle East last year, have been identified in camels from Oman
First images of DNA mix-ups linked to cancer
Time-lapse microscopy has captured severed DNA strands linking up with partners from the wrong chromosome, a process implicated in cancer
Super-accurate atomic clock doubles up as quantum sim
The most accurate timekeepers in the world just got a new use – as simulators of the complex quantum mechanics of electrons in a solid
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