The scientific guide to stockpiling food for a ‘no deal’ Brexit
In a post-Brexit culinary landscape, lamb with turnips and tinned carrots could be on the menu. You probably also want to buy a chest freezer
Our buildings make this heatwave worse – here’s how to cool them down
Many buildings in cool countries are poorly designed to cope with heat, and new homes and offices are even worse. Thousands will die if we don’t fix them
Parasite fungus sends insects on sex spree by loading them up on drugs
A fungus that infects cicadas seems to pump the insects full of methamphetamine and the active ingredient in magic mushrooms before sending them on a marathon sex spree
Starlight stretched by Milky Way’s black hole proves Einstein right
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity says a black hole’s gravity stretches the light waves of nearby stars – and we’ve seen it happen for the first time
Self-healing graphene could make robots that fix themselves with water
Adding graphene to a gel makes a 3D-printable substance that dries to be strong and conductive and heals when wet
Many chimps are active at night but we don’t know what they do
A study of 22 chimpanzee sites has found that they regularly wake up and move around in the night, but it’s not clear what the apes are up to
Inside a nuclear inspector school: How I went on the hunt for uranium
How do nuclear inspectors find material that could be used to make a bomb? Chelsea Whyte visited Los Alamos National Laboratory to learn their techniques
Why cuts in your mouth heal 10 times faster than skin wounds
Wounds in the mouth really do heal much faster than cuts to the skin, and it may be because mouth cells are genetically primed for healing
This mind-controlled robotic arm lets you do two things at once
Need a hand? Eight people have reliably used a mind-controlled robotic third arm to perform two tasks simultaneously
Has the chicken and egg puzzle over religion’s decline been settled?
New research claims to answer the question of whether godlessness begets riches or riches beget godlessness. It won't be the final word, says Gregory Paul