Brain-controlled smart home lets you turn the TV on by thinking
Smart homes fitted out with appliances that can be remotely controlled are already here – the next challenge is to control your home by thought alone
Face analysis can tell what you’ll buy after watching ads
The system made by Affectiva, a start-up in Waltham, Massachusetts, can pick up on hidden emotions just by monitoring the movements of someone's face
Brain stimulation can alter our desire to punish wrongdoers
Magnetic manipulation of our prefrontal cortex doesn't impact our ability to judge guilt – but it does influence our thoughts on a suitable punishment
Armoured wasps chop off opponents’ heads in brutal fig wars
With only a couple of days to mate before death, parasitic fig wasps go on a rampage inside their fig kingdoms, killing anything in their path
Key moments in human evolution were shaped by changing climate
The climate's role in our evolution has been debated for over a century. Now it seems environmental change rather than a particular environment made us who we are
Facebook’s ‘dislike’ button won’t be quite what you think
Strap: Is Facebook about to get a long-awaited polar opposite to its "like" button? Despite the clamour, it's almost certainly not going to happen, says Will Oremus
Have we turned dogs into lazy thinkers through domestication?
Faced with puzzles with food rewards dogs give up and defer to humans much more than wolves, who persevere until they solve the puzzle
Watch 50 drones controlled at once in a record-breaking swarm
A team at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has succeeded in launching 50 drones that were all piloted by a single person
ISIS could be using decades-old mustard gas in Syria
There are signs that mustard gas may have been used in Syria and Iraq, but rather than making it themselves, ISIS may be recycling forgotten weapons
Gaption, the social network where it can literally pay to post
Based in Malaysia, a new networking platform lets users advertise goods and services and share any proceeds with others who reshare and like their posts
