The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma
Neither extreme prohibition nor extreme liberalism is a sensible drugs policy – on medical cannabis and elsewhere, let’s see what the facts say
Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought
The Totten and Moscow University glaciers in east Antarctica have lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2002. Between them they could raise sea levels by 5 metres
Football teams secretly using AI to predict injuries before they occur
A machine learning algorithm that predicts 60 per cent of football injuries is secretly being used by three top European teams to work out when to rest their players
Small dogs urinate higher up lamp posts to make themselves seem bigger
It seems when smaller dogs urinate on objects they might be using this opportunity to deceive, by making it look like their mark was left by a bigger dog
Did ancient Mayan civilisation collapse because of a sudden drought?
We have the best evidence yet that there was a prolonged drought at the time of the demise of the classic Mayan civilisation - and could explain why it collapsed
How many people did Hurricane Maria really kill in Puerto Rico?
The official death toll for Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico, is 64 people. A new analysis of death records finds that 1139 excess deaths occurred in the months after the storm
Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived
A new analysis of the cremated remains at Stonehenge suggest that some of the bodies buried there came from hundreds of kilometres away in Wales
Dark matter might be harder to detect because it’s not from our galaxy
Two thirds of the dark matter in the area near the sun was sucked up when the Milky Way devoured another galaxy, and that might make it harder for us to detect
Modified mosquitoes wipe out whole city’s dengue for the first time
Anti-dengue mosquitoes have eliminated the virus from Townsville, Australia - the first successful large-scale use of modified mosquitoes to wipe out disease
Google Glass app uses emojis to help children with autism read faces
Many children with autism find it hard to decipher other people’s facial expressions. An interactive system that uses Google Glass may help