Proton sent through looking glass to gauge oddest force
The weak force is the only fundamental force to treat objects and their mirror images differently – raising hopes that it might point the way to new physics
Mysterious bursts of activity in flatlining brain
A tiny electrical beacon of activity deep within the centre of the brain may still be alert even when an EEG shows a flatline
Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Shrodinger's cat
Thought is so powerful that we can use it to reveal aspects of reality that cannot be reached any other way, finds Michael Brooks
Astronomy photography winners capture starlight snaps
From streaking meteors to dream-like panoramas, we bring you a selection of the winning entries from this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
Thoughts: The inside story
What are thoughts, and what exactly is thinking? Take a trip with philosopher Tim Bayne into the fantastic, ceaseless world our minds create
Dan Dennett's handy tools for easier thinking
If you need a bit of help to wade through an argument, reach for Occam's razor, Sturgeon's law or the good old rhetorical question, says Graham Lawton
First silicon paper ushers in era of bendy electronics
Rigid, crystalline silicon has been made to bend like paper by forming it into an entwined mesh of nanowires
Universe's baby pictures suggest a bubbly birth
We are a bubble of space-time that popped up inside a larger metaverse, hint anomalies in the best maps yet of light from the early universe
Colorado floods: low risk from fracking chemicals
Residents near flooded fracking sites should be more concerned about sewage and toxic waste from mining for gold and silver
Milky Way emerges from a lighthouse in prize-winning photo
A New Zealand lighthouse seems to send out a beacon to the whole galaxy in this image which took first place in Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
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