Antarctic tourism may pose disease threat to penguins
The Antarctic's blossoming tourist industry and warming climate could be placing penguins at greater risk of infectious diseases
Acid bath stem-cell scientist can't reproduce results
Haruko Obokata, at the Riken Institute in Kobe, Japan, admitted she could not reproduce evidence of the existence of STAP cells after an eight month investigation
Europe set to allow individual nations to ban GM crops
Proposed new rules would let member states of the European Union ban genetically modified crops on their soil even if the EU has approved the crops
Feedback: A gramophone news service
Prefiguration in Budapest, call us on the Telephonoscope, the round globe is a vast head and more
Europa's geysers disappear in a cloud of mystery
Plumes of water from Jupiter's moon Europa have not reappeared since their discovery – and evidence now suggests they may not have existed to begin with
Weird sea ghost breaks record for deepest living fish
A newly discovered species with a bizarre body has been spotted deeper down than any other living fish
How to think about… Alien contact
First, try not to think about what alien life might be like. Then wonder whether we have any chance of finding it
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