Sync your sport to your body clock for a personal best
Larks and night owls perform drastically better if a sporting event is timed to suit their circadian rhythm
Cancer-warped skeletons imagined for building design
The extreme deformities caused by bone cancer push the human body to its limits. Our amazing ability to adapt could inspire future architecture
The world's wellness obsession has gone too far
Being urged to optimise every aspect of our lives to improve well-being is sometimes counterproductive, say André Spicer and Carl Cederström
Leak suggests big bang find was a dusty mistake
Details of a new analysis of last year's BICEP2 results have been accidentally leaked – and seem to show that claiming a gravitational wave discovery was jumping the gun
Feedback: Nice slice of fried man, Sir?
Sex-specific snack suspicion, when ads break the law, getting water from petrol and more
The bitcoin rush: Pioneers on the financial frontier
Meet miners, outlaws and sheriffs all striving to get ahead in the volatile new world of virtual money. Financial Times reporter Kadhim Shubber is your guide
Just four credit card clues can identify anyone
Without even knowing what someone bought, it's possible to pick their credit card history out of an anonymised pool thanks to the metadata collected by modern devices
Möbius strips of light made for the first time
A decade ago, physicists suggested that certain properties of light can twist into a one-sided loop – now there's proof
The Hard Problem is Stoppard's problem with science
After a long wait and a great track record transmuting science into art, Tom Stoppard's new play takes on the hard problem of consciousness – and loses
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