I can turn your food waste into glass
The food we throw away could all be converted into useful minerals, claims Ivan Cornejo, who is pioneering a trash-to-glass initiative (full text available to subscribers)
Inside story on gut health: Why it’s time to take control
The gut is one of the most under-rated human organs, yet it's increasingly linked to killer diseases – and optimum health, say two new books
Monkeys’ cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication
Troops of gelada monkeys in Ethiopia are unfazed by wolves wandering through to hunt rodents, but is one domesticating the other just as humans did with dogs?
Rogue wave ahoy! New technique can predict surprise sea threat
Massive ocean waves that seem to come from nowhere endanger ships and oil platforms, but now there is a way to see them coming
Punk rock sea slug spotted in Australia
Some look like punks, others like clowns. A seasonal census is uncovering a wide variety of sea slug species in a biodiversity hotspot
Four countries are acting as safe havens for African elephants
Botswana, Gabon, Namibia and Uganda are bucking the trend of steep declines in elephant numbers, and their successes hint at good ways to protect the animals
‘Female Viagra’ to treat low libido gets go-ahead from FDA panel
A US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has approved the drug, which will be given the brand name Addyi
Feedback: When art intimates life
Legal depositions, inimitable bowel syndrome, top shelf science and more (full text available to subscribers)
Listening to meteorites hitting Mars will tell us what’s inside
NASA's InSight mission may be able to use seismic waves from meteorite strikes to probe the Red Planet's interior
Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease
Forget about yoghurt. We're engineering bugs that will patrol our guts and take out pathogens (full text available to subscribers)
