One Per Cent
Uber wins legal fight in London, all-seeing eyes for smartphones
What will it take for humans to take advice from a robot?
An unusual experiment in Paris looks at whether humans can trust robots – a pressing question as we start to work alongside each other
Inside the massive plan to track the lives of 10,000 New Yorkers
In this second instalment of our two-part data special we look at an ambitious scheme to uncover medical secrets in the numbers of everyday life
First Earth-mass planet around nearest star may be an illusion
Alpha Centauri Bb was announced in 2012 as the nearest exoplanet that could resemble Earth, but another team concludes it was probably a spurious signal
How the scariest video games use our own minds to terrify us
Some believe that video games are the best medium for horror we have, using the way we identify with our character to shape our fears
Inside GCHQ: Is the secret agency misusing Alan Turing’s legacy?
The UK's GCHQ reveres Alan Turing, but with accusations of bulk data collection and mass surveillancet, would Turing be proud? Jacob Aron visited to find out
Back to the Future: Does physics of Marty’s time travel add up?
Today is 21 October 2015 – the date Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to in Back to the Future Part II. Can we reconcile the films with reality?
Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs for the first time
Nanotubes have turned up in the lungs of asthmatic children in Paris – although their source and their effects on health remain unclear
Seagrass gardens are needed to cap the carbon bomb in the oceans
Millennia's worth of buried carbon is escaping from damaged seagrass meadows. The plant's natural growth rates are too slow to fix the problem without help
Drug reversed my Parkinson’s symptoms and let me read again
Alan Hoffman talks about his experience as a volunteer in a six-month trial of the first drug that seems to directly target the causes of Parkinson's disease
