Smartwatch app detects epileptic seizures and texts a warning
After his wife had an unexpected seizure, programmer Ryan Clark wrote an app for her smartwatch to detect those characteristic movements and send a warning text
Pigment-making microbes could replace dirty synthetic dyes
A French start-up is growing bacteria that can produce inks and dyes, meaning we may no longer have to synthesise dyes using oil and toxic chemicals
Life-friendly moons might get eaten by their own drifting planet
Our failure to spot moons in other solar systems may be because of a gravitational dance that wrecks moons as their planets edge towards their star
Meet the young women leading the way in Ethiopia’s TB fight
Ethiopia has recruited 40,000 women - some as young as 16 - to screen for deadly diseases and provide vital healthcare. We speak to those on the front line
Smart guns and mental health checks needed to slash gun violence
Obama has a plan but mental health campaigners are unhappy that it includes putting more information about people's mental status in the national database
Four new elements complete the seventh row of the periodic table
Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have been credited to teams in Japan, Russia and the US, who will now be able to propose names for them
Guinea pigs beat hot temperatures by tweaking their DNA
Wild animals might buy themselves time to adapt to climate change by making epigenetic changes to regulate temperature, and passing improvements on to offspring
UK’s carbon footprint from imported food revealed for first time
Nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gases produced in feeding the UK are now released abroad, with 18 per cent released in South America
Vaping really isn’t as harmful for your cells as smoking
Findings that vaping damages cells made headlines last week, but the real message of the study was the opposite of what was mostly reported
Understanding climate change’s role in the UK’s recent floods
After the UK was hit by three storms in quick succession, everyone wants to know if climate change is to blame. But is it the right question?
