Fed up with fad diets? Just tweak your habits instead
It's a new year and fad diets are back. But there's mounting evidence for a healthier way to keep you trim and healthy – changing your environment
I'm tapping the housefly's genome to fight disease
The common housefly spreads hundreds of diseases, but unravelling its genome should help us make the world healthier, says entomologist Jeffrey Scott
Forget the fads: The easy way to control your eating
Small tweaks to your kitchen, where you sit and where you keep food can have big effects on what and how much you eat, says psychologist Brian Wansink
SpaceX rocket crashes in first attempted boat landing
"Close, but no cigar this time," tweeted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after his firm's Falcon 9 rocket was destroyed as it attempted to land on a barge at sea
Uber-tidy bees defend their hives from disease
The cleaning behaviour of bees can protect hives from the harmful varroa mite and diseases it spreads – and selective breeding could spread these good habits
Huge circle in Antarctic ice hints at meteorite impact
A 2-kilometre-wide circle of deformed ice discovered in Antarctica may be a site of a large meteorite impact from 2004
Ghostly forms tell how typhoons touch ocean life
For the first time, underwater photos capture ocean life in action during a typhoon
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