'Hug' brain test could diagnose disorders like autism
Mmmm hugs! Having people think about emotion-laden actions as their brain is scanned could become one of the first evidence-based tests for mental condition
Armies of ants keep New York squeaky clean
Urban insects gorge on food litter, cleaning streets and competing with pests such as rats
Hayabusa 2 probe begins journey to land on an asteroid
Japanese space agency JAXA has successfully launched Hayabusa 2, which will land on asteroid 1993 JU3 in 2018
Genetic analysis confirms Richard III skeleton find
A raft of evidence, including DNA tests, concludes the skeleton found beneath a car park in Leicester, UK in 2012 is indeed that of King Richard III
Total safety an illusion for Japan's nuclear restart
Some Japanese nuclear reactors, mothballed since the 2011 Tohoku quake, may soon restart. But nature can outpace new safety precautions, warns a geophysicist
Most violence arises from morality, not the lack of it
We are rarely violent because we fail to think about right and wrong, we do it because it feels like the right thing, say Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai
Where am I in the world?
We rely on brain maps to tell us where our bodies are, says Making Space, a clever book that explains the making of the maps
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