Just add water to see the brain's web of connections
A rainbow of filaments cradling a walnut-like tumour shows surgeons how to negotiate the tangled web of neural connections and save a patent's sight
Typhoon Haiyan: baby girl death toll will rise
Fifteen times as many people die in the Philippines the year after a typhoon than are killed by the storm itself – and the majority are baby girls
The germ detectives: Tracking the DNA to patient zero
Now that genomes that can be sequenced quickly and cheaply, deadly microbes have nowhere to hide from the gene police. Linda Geddes investigates
All present: Our pick of the best science gifts
When it comes to giving gifts, our selection shows how science delivers the beautiful as well as the technical
Cancer meets its nemesis in reprogrammed blood cells
Engineer immune cells to recognise tumour cells they would otherwise overlook and they call a halt to cancers we thought were incurable
Text messages tell drivers when there's a jam ahead
A text message service launched this month uses SMS and artificial intelligence to plot a clear route for drivers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi
Early life built Earth's continents
Without the influence of life's incessant churning, Earth would be an unrecognisable water-world dotted with volcanoes, according to a new simulation
Beating cancer by blocking off its escape routes
Finally, we are in a winning position in the war against cancer thanks to new treatments based on modified immune cells
Four-winged robot flies like a jellyfish
With a shape that looks more at home beneath the waves, the light robot could float wherever the breeze takes it, taking environmental measurements as it goes
Admit it: we can't measure our ecological footprint
We need 1.5 Earths to sustain our lavish lifestyles? Rubbish, says Fred Pearce: that's a publicity stunt which doesn't measure our overuse of resources
My quantum algorithm won't break the internet… yet
MIT's Peter Shor explains why he devised an algorithm for a quantum computer that could unravel our online data encryption
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