Drug may have hit wrong brain target in French clinical trial
An initial report into a drug trial that left one person dead and five with brain damage says a very high dose may have led to "off-target" effects
Mysterious fairy circles now discovered in Australia’s desert
Footsteps of gods, underground dragons or UFOs? The discovery of Australian fairy circles points to ecological origins of these mystery formations
High-power biological wheels and motors imaged for first time
The gearing system that provides rotation in bacterial flagella, the only known examples of wheels in nature, has been resolved in 3D for the first time
Skull of mini T. rex shows it gained intelligence before size
New remains plug a 20-million-year gap in the fossil record and suggest T. rex evolved a big brain as the first step to becoming apex predator
Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in “random” prime numbers
Unexpected trends in the last digits of prime numbers mean they are less random than previously thought, much to the surprise of mathematicians
Sea-level rise may displace 13 million people in the US by 2100
Estimates that take into account growth in coastal populations suggest rising seas may affect three times as many people in the US as thought before
Oldest ever human genome sequence may rewrite human history
Fossils from Spain’s “pit of bones“ have yielded 430,000-year-old nuclear DNA that reveals Neanderthals in the making - and the need for a rethink over our origins
February 2016’s temperature spike is yet another record
Last month, temperatures overshot the February average by a new record margin, beating one set only the previous month - and it's not just down to El Niño
Humans strike back: How Lee Sedol won a game against AlphaGo
Lee Sedol defeated Google's powerful Go-playing AI on Sunday, at the fourth attempt
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
As anti-capitalist protesters take to the streets, mathematics has teased apart the global economic network to show who's really pulling the strings