Saturn’s largest moon Titan could have sun-warmed swirling seas
Solar heating could create currents in liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon – which could pose a challenge for proposed missions there
Bionic pancreas automatically controls diabetics’ blood sugar
A smartphone app can work like a bionic pancreas, allowing people with diabetes to sleep safely all night without waking to check blood sugar levels
How earthquakes can trigger copycat quakes 1000 kilometres away
Seismic waves vibrating at the right frequency can shake up distant tectonic faults, even if the waves are very weak, and set off secondary quakes
In so many words: Sister world makes us feel less alone
It is hard to find a good world to live on. A far-away sister world not too different from our home world could change the way we see us in the All-There-Is
The lies we tell are more convincing when we need to pee
Observers are less able to distinguish the truth from a falsehood when an interviewee has a full bladder
Indonesia forced to act as wildfire haze chokes South-East Asia
Government cracks down on illegal slash-and-burn practices after an unprecedented number of forest fires raise air pollution to hazardous levels
Zoologger: Octopus makes own quicksand to build burrow on seabed
Southern sand octopus is first cephalopod found to build underwater hideout by burrowing through quicksand and daubing the walls with mucus
Citizen scientists catch cloud of comets orbiting distant star
A bizarre signal from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope showed up in a citizen science project called Planet Hunters, and may be caused by dust from a comet storm
If viruses transfer wasp genes into butterflies, are they GM?
Some claim that North America's famed monarch butterfly is a natural genetically modified organism owing to the transfer of wasp genes by tamed viruses
Apes remember major events in movies, even on a single viewing
The first evidence that chimpanzees and bonobos can recall recent events comes from experiments that tested their memory of short movie clips
