Watery time capsule hints at how life got started on early Earth
Water locked away in rocks for 1.5 billion years reveals conditions were right for complex organic molecules to form in deep sea hydrothermal vents
Metamaterial wormhole teleports magnetic fields across space
Better MRI scanners could result from a trick in which a magnetic field springs up from nowhere, using materials famous for their link to invisibility cloaks
Turning CO2 from air into car parts may help carbon capture pay
Atmospheric CO2 can be turned into carbon nanofibres for high-tech uses a method that may also hold promise for profitable carbon capture
NASA scours retired space shuttles for spare parts
Two of the four NASA space shuttles on display in US museums have had their water tanks removed for possible use in a storage system for the ISS
Warmest ever superconductor works at Antarctic temperatures
A metal under pressure has broken the record for the warmest superconductor yet – it could work at Antarctic temperatures rather than those found in the depths of space
Possible new particle hints that universe may not be left-handed
The possible discovery of a boson at the Large Hadron Collider suggests a restoration of symmetry between two simple things: left and right
Extreme weather could trigger frequent global food shocks
By 2050 a once in a century crop failure event is expected to happen once every 10 years, sending shock waves through the world's food systems
Gene therapy cures blindness by replacing vision cells in eyes
Blind mice with destroyed retinas ran away from a swooping owl after treatment reprogrammed different cells in their eyes to detect light
Speculation mounts over trigger of Chinese warehouse explosions
One theory behind the blasts in the port of Tianjin is that the warehouse where it originated was storing chemicals that caught fire on contact with water
Rosetta sees sparks as comet 67P reaches closest approach to sun
The European Space Agency's comet team are celebrating perihelion, the day when comet 67P swings around the sun, taking Rosetta for a ride
