3D silk doughnut opens window on brain injury
A silk "brain" seeded with rat neurons responds to damage like an animal brain, suggesting it could help doctors understand and treat brain injuries
Revealed: How Ebola paralyses the immune system
Ebola virus produces a substance which blocks the fast-track message that usually rallies the immune system – a discovery that could guide new treatments
Esports: Pro video gaming explodes with big prize pots
Star video gamers now earn huge cash prizes and have legions of fans, just like in any other sport – and esports are only getting bigger
Esports: Doping is rampant, industry insider claims
Drugs to improve focus or remain cool under pressure are part of many esports players' strategy to get ahead, claims a former industry employee
Shark Week – ditch Hitler and fiction posing as fact
There's a worrying trend of fearmongering and pseudoscience on the Discovery Channel's annual take on all things shark, says marine biologist David Shiffman
The spy who bugged me: spook kit from the 1960s
The belly buster, ultra-thin pincers and a secret silver dollar. The tools of 20th century western spycraft, from the CIA Museum
Fields medallist: How Rubik's cube inspired new maths
Manjul Bhargava, who has just won the most coveted prize in mathematics, explains the link between Rubik's cube and his groundbreaking work in number theory
The high life of the self-experimenters
It seems that legal high inventor Dr Z wasn't the first person to dabble in drugs they made in the lab. Here are some other psychonauts who did the same
Iranian woman wins maths' top prize, the Fields medal
Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford University is the first woman to win the Fields medal, alongside three male mathematicians receiving the award in Seoul
Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life
What was the last shared ancestor of all life like? How did it make its living? A radical new answer could explain some of the most mysterious features of life
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