Record sea ice around Antarctica due to global warming
The extent of Antarctica's sea ice has hit yet another record high, and counter-intuitively global warming is responsible
World closes in on goal of halving hunger by 2015
The number of people without enough to eat has fallen rapidly over the past 25 years, but sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia are still struggling
Shockers: Psychology experiments that we'd ban now
You can learn a lot about people if you mess with their minds. Here are four infamous experiments in which psychologists gave in to unethical temptations
Boeing and SpaceX bag NASA's $6.8bn space taxi prize
NASA has announced that two private companies, Boeing and SpaceX, will start launching astronauts to the International Space Station in 2017
Leaky wells, not fracking, polluted US drinking water
The act of fracking is probably not contaminating US drinking water – the real problem is leaks from the wells that bring natural gas to the surface
Stem cells used in landmark therapy for failing sight
A Japanese woman with macular degeneration is the first person to be treated with induced pluripotent stem cells, made from her own skin
No, Jaws is not lurking off the Cornish coast
Scaremongering claims of a great white shark in UK waters could have been easily avoided, says shark conservation biologist David Shiffman
Simple urine test detects cervical cancer virus
It is not as accurate as sampling HPV DNA from the cervix itself, but the test might benefit women who are too scared to have a conventional smear test
The war for our attention in a land of infinite choice
With more content than ever before, its hard to extract what's preferred from what's promoted. Two books explore the effect digital media has on us
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