Birth defects caused by Zika virus have dominated the news. Less well-known is the chance it could cause mental illness in later life, says Harriet Washington
Temperatures could soar to 1.3 °C or more above pre-industrial levels this year, taking us alarmingly close to 1.5 °C before the Paris deal even comes into effect
England’s public health agency has launched an “incident response” because it has discovered more cases of gonorrhoea that are resistant to nearly all antibiotics
A vote to leave the EU on 23 June would have uncertain, possibly detrimental effects on the UK's standards of environmental protection
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory has released its first map of the high-energy sky, catching pulsars, supernova remnants and blazars switching on and off
A project called All Prior Art generates millions of trivial ideas and places them in the public domain so they can’t be patented for profit
The LIGO experiment only recently made the first sighting of gravitational waves, but already the team is preparing for their next feat
The suspected drone collision with a passenger plane at Heathrow airport could accelerate regulation and herald the rise of geo-fencing technology
A genetic study has found areas of the genome linked with the age at which people have sex for the first time. What should we make of it, asks Clare Wilson
Software that scans your home appliances, then lets you design and 3D print new layouts for their controls heralds a new era of home hacking
