Beyond drugs: the war on lifestyle disease needs new tactics
If we rely solely on medical sciences to get us out of a global epidemic of "lifestyle" disease, we will fail, warns Luke Allen
Giant honeybees may act like a collective lung to beat the heat
Curtains of bees appear to draw air in and out of their colonies, keeping their colonies cool
We need a new secular approach to dignity
Like it or not, the scientific view of humanity is a bleak one. But there is a way round it: breaking the link between what we are and how we are treated
Troll hunters: the Twitterbots that fight against online abuse
Social media has a big problem with racist and misogynistic harassment and human intervention isn't working. Time to bring in the bots
Transgender Olympians in Rio don’t have an unfair advantage
The evidence shows that transgender women won’t outcompete other female athletes, says Yannis Pitsiladis, a member of the IOC’s scientific commission
Can polio success help India improve its public health?
The legacy of polio eradication gives India a golden opportunity to fix its scandalously poor healthcare system. Will it take it?
Found: brain switches that wake flies up and send them to sleep
Activating specific neurons in fruit fly brains sends them straight to sleep, or rouses them from slumber – and we may have a similar switch
Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips
Superconducting chips were the front runner for use in future quantum computers, but now trapped ions are showing they can perform just as well
‘Superfood’ doesn’t mean anything, so let’s stop using it
Although some foods have superior nutritional value, there’s no incentive for manufacturers to define terms like superfood. The ambiguity hides the true facts
Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak
Gravity is weaker than it should be – a new theory suggests that’s because the universe is full of invisible particle families which ignore each other