Pentagon warns the US military of climate change
A US Department of Defense report says the impacts of climate change could fuel armed insurgency and challenge governments, and aims to prepare the US army for the worst
Wonder stuff: Amazing material that does grow on trees
Wood could hold up the skyscrapers of the future – now that it's stronger and more versatile than ever before
5 reasons to worry about a quagga mussel invasion
The invasive quagga mussel has been spotted in the UK. It breeds rapidly and suffocates other mussel species, but could be controlled with a poison pill
Told by a robot: Fiction by storytelling computers
Once upon a time there were three AIs that trawled the web for stuff they could turn into stories. Read on to find out how good they are
Grizzled veteran chimp shares snack with stripling
How come this elder male chimpanzee is happy to share berries with a 4-year-old? Thanks to Jane Goodall, we know them so well we can hazard a guess
Absent tots give early alarm on disease
Monitoring absences in daycare could give health authorities warnings of illnesses like flu and gastroenteritis weeks before they hit the wider community
We must try a lot harder to beat fake antimalarials
Malaria medicines that are too weak or downright fakes are harming health and could aggravate drug resistance, says epidemiologist Paul Newton
Cave art discovery is rewriting human prehistory
The discovery of the oldest hand stencils in Indonesia strike a death blow for a Eurocentric and chauvinistic view of human evolution
Let science decide the voting age
Research on the adolescent brain can help us decide whether 16-year-olds should have the vote, says psychologist Laurence Steinberg
Wonder stuff: Heat scavengers promise energy bonanza
A new breed of structures called skutterudites could finally tap the floods of energy our machines waste as heat
Fish love skyscraper-style living under oil platforms
Oil rigs are rarely lauded by conservationists, but fish seem to love them – they have more fish living around them than natural rocky reefs do
Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales
It's one of the toughest challenges in artificial intelligence: teaching a computer to understand us so well that it can write a story we'll want to hear
How big data algorithms see us – while they eat us up
From home shopping to homeland security, big data's sausage machine is devouring us all, according to Christian Rudder's future-looking Dataclysm
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