Feeling sad? Computer knows by looking at how you move
A computer that recognises body language using a Microsoft Kinect camera could help children with autism understand and express emotions
Spider monkey society is sexually segregated
Male and female Geoffroy's spider monkeys spend most of their time apart – apparently because the males are prone to attack the females
Tinder-style matchmaking helps you bag your next job
Hit dating app Tinder lets prospective partners know when they both like the other's profile. A new website wants to take that simplicity to the jobs market
Singer Charlotte Church says physics rocks her universe
Quantum entanglement is an enthralling metaphor for love that inspired my latest music, says the Welsh pop star
The science of success: Blood, or sweat and tears?
Everyone has a pet theory about why people do well in life, but what does the evidence say – and what can we do to help ourselves and our children?
Tweet patrol knows when censors delete online posts
Seeing which connections break on Twitter or other social networks can detect when repressive regimes are censoring content online
If the giant tusks don't get you, the bad breath will
What does J.R.R. Tolkien have to do with the walruses of Svalbard? And would you really want to get this close to one?
Bionic arm gives cyborg drummer superhuman skills
Jason Barnes's prosthetic arm will let him live his drumming dream in his first gig this month – but it also adds its own rhythms inspired by jazz greats
Don't waste CO2, turn it into bottles and glue
We can do better than bury carbon dioxide captured from power plants – some can be a raw material for everything from superglue to fertiliser
Europe gets its own version of Tyrannosaurus rex
Palaeontologists have discovered a new dinosaur, Torvosaurus gurneyi, which may have been Europe's largest terrestrial predator during the Jurassic
Long-lasting contraceptive also defends women from HIV
A vaginal ring carrying two drugs could arm women against HIV, herpes and pregnancy for three months – good news if their partners won't wear a condom
We'd rather 'like' a Facebook cause than donate to it
The largest study yet of online activism on Facebook suggests "likes" have little to do with commitment to distant causes.
Computer paints rainbow smoke with 17 million colours
Hungarian programmer József Fejes has won a competition for software that creates beautiful images containing every colour made using red, green and blue
Watch stocks do the jitterbug to cut the risk of trading
Stock prices follow the mathematical models of Brownian motion, and seeing how they dance might tell you when the market is about to crash
Mouse vaccine could protect humans from Lyme disease
The only vaccine against tick-borne Lyme disease was pulled from the market because of side effects in humans. But could it still be useful?
Huge Mexican pyramid could collapse like a sandcastle
Cosmic ray detectors under the Pyramid of the Sun in the ancient city of Teotihuacan reveal it is in danger of crumbling away
Trailblazing power plant is first to bury its carbon
A coal-fired power station in Canada is launching carbon capture and storage on a commercial scale. Could this make burning fossil fuels guilt-free?
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