Sex harassment app helps women map abuse
The creators of an app that draws maps of sexual harassment in Bangladesh hope it will make women feel safer and improve their political engagement
Don't kill the painkiller, educate the people
Accidental overdose of paracetamol, aka acetaminophen, kills 1500 people in the US every year. The nation could emulate the UK's public awareness campaign
Four futures for an independent Scotland
If the people of Scotland vote for their country's independence, this brand new nation could have four very different futures
What's wrong with the world's favourite painkiller?
It's the first resort for anything from a child's fever to arthritis – but paracetamol (acetaminophen) isn't as safe or effective as we thought it was
Traffic fumes cost rich countries $0.8 trillion a year
In 34 wealthy nations, the smog from roads accounts for half of the $1.7 trillion cost of air pollution
It's crunch time for dark matter if WIMPs don't show
If dark matter isn't made of WIMPs, could neutrinos or axions fit the bill? What if it's not a particle at all but a strange modification of gravity?
Watch a singularity form in a stretchy soap film
This slow-motion lime-green bubble is trippy, but this is no lava lamp – it's a mathematics experiment
Space hopefuls dine on worms in 'Moon Palace' module
Three volunteers snacked on mealworms for 105 days as part of China's plan to test life-support systems for deep space travel
Ebola vaccine for chimps works but may never be used
Chimpanzees threatened by an Ebola outbreak could be protected by a new vaccine, but cuts in chimp research may stymie its development
Google unveils design for its own self-driving car
After a million kilometres of road tests, the firm has announced it will be building its own driverless cars that don't even have pedals or steering wheels
More than just friends? 7 secret tests of attraction
Do you suspect a friend has the hots for you? Research has found seven telltale tests they will probably be using to find out if you feel the same
Friendship: Friends in high-tech places
Many blame the internet for loosening the ties that bind us – but it's also weaving a new kind of social web
Why antibiotics are WMDs to our bodies' microbes
Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs, Martin Blaser explains why in Missing Microbes
Crystal seen growing in slow motion one atom at a time
A method for slowing down crystal growth could make it possible to build customisable nanoscale structures useful in water purifiers and cloaking materials
What the data says about Europe's lurch to the right
If the economy gets better and more people turn out to vote, support for the more extreme parties will shrink in two to three years, say analysts
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