Should people who are not terminally ill have the right to die?
The debate around extending assisted suicide to people who experience unbearable mental suffering, rather than physical suffering, is an ethical minefield
Brain training game for troops tackles effects of combat trauma
The Israeli army has announced that by the end of the year its soldiers will play a game designed to prevent PTSD as part of their combat training
Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer
For the first time, researchers are able to extend the lifetime of a quantum bit, or qubit, using error correction – an essential step to useful quantum computers
One part of Antarctica has been cooling since 1998 – here’s why
The once fast-warming Antarctic Peninsula has cooled over the past 18 years thanks to shifting winds – but global warming will soon override their effect
A New Map of the Brain Redraws the Boundaries of Neuroscience
Self-destructing bacteria are engineered to kill cancer cells
Harnessing Salmonella strains that can live without oxygen could provide a much-needed weapon against the parts of a tumour that are hardest to attack
Meet the robot champion being house-trained in a Korean lab
What's next for the winner of the world's toughest robot challenge? Hal Hodson catches up with last year's DARPA Challenge star
Baidu uses millions of users’ location data to make predictions
The Chinese search giant has analysed vast amounts of phone location data to monitor employment, consumer behaviour, and even Apple sales
Let’s ditch the idea that only home-cooked food is good for kids
Kids' ready meals fared well compared with home-cooked in a new study – another reason to stop shaming mums who buy convenience foods, says Anthony Warner
Stitching a drone’s view of the world into 3D maps as it flies
Combining multiple images from a drone-mounted camera gives highly detailed models of the ground – and this can now be done in real time