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Huge online Trolley Problem survey reveals people's cultural bias

24 October 2018

A survey posed ethical dilemmas to millions of people to help develop self-driving cars, but some worry the results could bake our biases into new technology

President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty

24 October 2018

Donald Trump said this week that the US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, saying both Russia and China possess the missiles it bans

Feedback: The diesel scent of London, now available in a bottle

24 October 2018

But who would want to smell like Piccadilly Circus? Plus: a six figure price tag for Gwyneth Paltrow's yoni eggs, a black market in counterfeit poo, and more

Make Halloween: with this device you can haunt your own home

24 October 2018

Scare the living daylights out of your friends and family with a voice-activated haunted house machine

Legging it

24 October 2018

Why aren't there any big animals (not insects) with six legs, or eight legs or more than this?

Blow out

24 October 2018

Space movies regularly dispatch characters through an explosively decompressed airlock. But how likely is such a rapid ejection, taking into account the victim's location in the airlock and its volume? Assuming they are wearing a spacesuit, what is the...

Don't miss – time travel anime, overpopulation and skewed food science

24 October 2018

Catch Japanese animation Mirai, download a Malthusian discussion and read Marion Nestle's take on how food giants try to muddy the waters on dietary health

Dawns, Mine, Crystal review – art with a crafty message for science

24 October 2018

Science isn't just there to be useful, it's a kind of craft. That's the take-home message from a leading Korean artist whose new work is shaped by a spell at CERN