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Ian Burkhart became paralysed when he broke his neck six years ago, but now a device that reads his thoughts enables him to control his arm movements

Ian Burkhart is the first paralysed person to regain control of his own hand and fingers using a mind-reading device implanted in his brain  

With diplomats soon to head to New York to sign the Paris agreement, the world is already making progress towards achieving its goals, says Christiana Figueres

US giant Peabody Energy filed for bankruptcy today. Its decline is part of a larger trend ushering in the end of coal and rise of renewables

Greenland's ice usually doesn't start melting much until mid-May. This April’s temperatures above 10 °C have led a tenth of the ice there to start melting already

A snake has been caught on film pushing grass out of the way near a ground squirrel burrow as if in preparation for an attack on its prey

A frog study provides the strongest evidence yet that a father’s lifestyle may affect the next generation, via chemical tags that change gene activity

Beetles can skate across water by decreasing the surface tension - now tiny engines made from droplets, nanopowder and laser light are using the same trick

Biologist David Barash weighs up the latest explanation for one of human evolution's enduring mysteries and finds that there are more plausible alternatives

The US Drug Enforcement Agency is mulling its classification of marijuana and reviewing the science - something its tough laws have stymied