Buzzing glove teaches Braille through good vibrations
The glove has vibrating motors at the knuckle of each finger which pulse whenever you need to press a key on the Braille keyboard
Stone Age worm egg hints at origins of modern scourge
At a 6000-year-old site where locals irrigated crops, archaeologists have found the oldest parasitic egg of a flatworm that infects 210 million people today
Next-generation hearing aids get some iPhone cool
The first iPhone-compatible hearing aids allow music streaming and boast location-aware fine-tuning – one day everyone will want one
Anthrax escape raises worries about lab-grown super-flu
The anthrax scare at a US lab is unlikely to make anyone ill, but it suggests we should be very careful about scientists creating highly dangerous pathogens
Mountain top exploded to make way for ghost telescope
The telescope that will live on the now-flat summit of Cerro Amazones in the Atacama desert will be the largest of its kind in the world – and a ghost
Spot-the-difference software maps city's mean streets
Crowdsourced voters have taught a computer to recognise when a street looks safe – its automated maps could help homebuyers or even track inequality
Sound sieve lets you choose what to levitate
An acoustic device for lifting and sorting small objects might one day find uses in nano-manufacturing or cell therapies
Feedback: All dogs go to gate 97, please
The canine jet set, phone not a friend, fear, uncertainty and doubt among the economists, and more
Zoologger: Old magpies get wise to freeloading cuckoos
Eurasian magpies often have their nests parasitised by cuckoos, but as they get older they learn to reject the intruders' eggs
Break electricity addiction to win the power struggle
Electricity suppliers are struggling to supply cheap, clean and reliable power – managing our demand more actively will help
Manhunt to bug hunt: Cop skills track nature's killers
The geographical profiling that catches serial killers can track bats to their roosts or sharks to their lairs – and could close in on deadly diseases too
Neanderthals evolved their teeth before big brains
Ancient skulls found in Spain reveal how the earliest Neanderthals differed from their ancestors, suggesting their jaws changed shape to grip objects
Commercial quantum computer still awaits ultimate test
Today more inconclusive tests of D-Wave's quantum computers came to light – why is it so hard to tell if its machines are the real deal?
Big Bang breakthrough team back-pedals on major result
For the first time, the BICEP2 team – hailed for their gravitational wave discovery earlier this year – have dialled back on the certainty of the result
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