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Exclusive: Brain zap therapy for aggression to be tested on prisoners

6 March 2019

Researchers are about to begin testing whether electrical brain stimulation can reduce violent thoughts among convicts in a Spanish prison

China plans world's first deep sea base, complete with robot subs

6 March 2019

Plans for a permanent lab far beneath the waves, crewed by autonomous underwater rovers, are gathering pace in China – here's what the facility might be like

Hacking just 1 in 10 cars could gridlock all of the roads in Manhattan

4 March 2019

Internet-connected cars promise to reduce traffic incidents with sensors that can stop a car, but if they were hacked whole cities could shut down

EU sued for making global warming worse by subsidising wood burning

4 March 2019

The European Union is accelerating global warming and damaging forests worldwide by encouraging wood burning without counting the carbon emissions, says the lawsuit

Climate change is the new normal but we don’t seem to notice

2 March 2019

An analysis of Twitter data suggests weird weather is soon viewed as normal, which means we risk ignoring the effects of climate change, says Frances Moore

Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades

1 March 2019

Asteroids hitting the surface of Mars billions of years ago would have produced enough energy to vaporise ice, creating clouds of hot rain that took decades to clear

Broken bones in mice healed faster by heat-releasing implant

1 March 2019

A biodegradable bone implant stimulates bone regrowth using heat, doubling the amount of bone tissue regrowth in mice

Human genome editing is here – now we have to decide who is in charge

1 March 2019

The announcement of a WHO committee to discuss the scientific, ethical and legal issues surrounding human genome editing is to be welcomed, says Andy Greenfield