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It's time to embrace video games as an Olympic sport

16 August 2018

They may compete from the comfort of a chair, but video gamers are in the mix at this year's Asian games and are on track for Olympic stardom, says Mark Zastrow

Don't restrict women's contraception rights through moral panic

15 August 2018

Failures of the contraception app Natural Cycles have been linked to abortions in Sweden. But critics should remember all contraception fails sometimes

Send in the lawyers to win the fight against climate change

15 August 2018

A rash of court cases is challenging governments and fossil-fuel interests on climate inaction. Some question whether such actions are legitimate – they are

No contraceptive is perfect, but can you trust apps to stop pregnancy?

15 August 2018

Birth control app Natural Cycles has come under fire for unwanted pregnancies, but this just reveals how little we understand contraception

Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours

15 August 2018

A theory suggesting that the universe is constantly reborn could be proved right by ‘Hawking points’ – signs of evaporated black holes from a time before the big bang

Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the ‘gene pollution’ effect

14 August 2018

Farmed Atlantic salmon make the local wild salmon population weaker. Making them sterile could work – but there’s a catch

Sticking brain cells together with glue could boost and protect memory

14 August 2018

Can a chemical that reinforces the connections in our brains prevent the destruction of memories in ageing and Alzheimer’s? It seems to work in mice

Why forecasting how hot it will be in 2022 is mostly a gimmick

14 August 2018

It will never be possible to forecast weather years ahead, but we can predict the average global temperature four years from now. Trouble is, that’s not that useful