Paris says 'non' to diesel in anti-pollution push
The French capital could become the first major metropolis to ban diesel cars in an effort to reduce pollution from nitrogen oxides
Malaria death rate halved, but many still lack nets
Bednets, diagnostic tests and newer drugs have saved an estimated 4.3 million lives, but malaria still killed half a million people globally last year
The nitty-gritty of killing off WMDs
To rid the world of bioweapons and nukes, we must accept paradoxes and understand the complexities of the technology, argue two fascinatingly forensic books
Curiosity rover finds ancient lake in Martian crater
The crater that NASA's Curiosity rover is exploring was once a wide, shallow lake that may have lasted for tens of millions of years
Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab
Recreating a meteorite impact with a laser has demonstrated directly how the building blocks of the genetic code could have formed on our primordial planet
The deepest limits: How low can fish go?
No fish has been spotted further than 8000 metres below the ocean surface – now we know why that record may never be beaten
How we can avert the coming mass extinction
From can-do technical fixes to listening to Earth's peoples, there are ways to mitigate our devastation of nature, argue two new books
Seven sperm whales dead in mysterious stranding
Several massive whales were found dead on a beach in what is thought to be the first mass sperm-whale stranding in South Australia
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