Dementia and what you can do to prevent it
Read our latest articles on Alzheimer's and other kinds of dementia – and the simple things we can all do to keep our brains healthy in old age
Squelch! The mystery of Britain's young bogs
A team went looking for bogs that bear witness to Britain's great deforestation – but most were too young. Stephen Battersby finds a path out of the quagmire
Recycled wombs could nurture child and grandchild
A Swedish surgeon who successfully transplanted wombs into nine women is now helping some of them get pregnant via IVF
Conservation group backs killing rare rhino for cash
A licence to kill a rogue male black rhino sold for $350,000 – the IUCN says the wider population will benefit and the funds will go to conservation
The right words to boost your Kickstarter pitch
An analysis of the language used in thousands of crowdfunding pitches on the Kickstarter website has unearthed some useful "dos" and "don'ts"
Ice-scapes from the air turn nature into a painting
Snapped from a "flying motorcycle" in Poland, wintry lakes and forests become expressive, graphical art – and blur the line between nature and human activity
Astrophile: Binary stars that form like fraternal twins
Half of the sun-like stars in the galaxy are in binary pairs – we've just glimpsed into a stellar nursery to see how such pairs come into the universe
Real King Kong may have been brought down by fruit
Gigantopithecus, a 3-metre-tall ape that lived during the Stone Age, may have been driven to extinction by eating fruit that contained little nourishment
Get friendly with sharks and bears on Facebook
The WildMe app gives whale sharks and polar bears their own Facebook pages, letting users friend them and follow their movements and exploits
NSA's snooping dragnet has little impact on terrorism
The US government argues its mass collection of phone call data is crucial to stopping terrorists, but a new report argues it has rarely made much difference
Sluggish metabolisms are key to primates' long lives
Primates like humans and monkeys grow slowly, bear few young, and live a long time. Now we know why – primates simply use less energy
Cutting sugar is a different challenge to slashing salt
A war on sugar has begun in the UK that echoes the nation's successful crusade against salt – but cutting sugar out of people's diets poses new challenges
UK fracking frenzy could breach emissions targets
Cash sweeteners inviting a "dash for shale gas" could see the UK overshoot on planned carbon dioxide reductions
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