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Austerity has put UK forensic labs in crisis and justice at risk

25 April 2018

Thousands of criminal cases are under review, forensic labs are failing to meet basic standards and some are just going bust. Where did it all go wrong?

Vibrating wristband warns you when to button it at parties

25 April 2018

Careless talk costs social lives, so we made a gadget that will help you navigate any conversational minefields

Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

25 April 2018

This photoset is a glimpse into life as an ice watcher – flying long missions over frozen polar terrain to keep tabs on the warming world

To help heal the Korean peninsula try scientific cooperation too

25 April 2018

Research exchanges could help open up North Korea and reduce long-standing tensions with South Korea and its allies -if politicians will allow it, says Mark Zastrow.

Brain Fade

25 April 2018

What is happening in my brain when I fall asleep in a boring meeting at work? It feels as though my brain shuts down by sections until it is difficult to keep my eyes open. Why can I not bore myself to sleep on those rare occasions when I lie awake at...

Apocalypse then

25 April 2018

In the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Vogons demolished Earth. They said it would take approximately 2 minutes, so how much energy would they have needed to obliterate our planet? Would kicking the planet out of its orbit have been more...

Feedback: World's largest bird feeder to save peckish flocks

25 April 2018

An all-you-can-eat buffet is laid out in China to help migrating species. Plus: 23AndMe boss trips over her genes, stoned wallabies, dolphin water and more