Astronauts to get helping hand from soccer ball robots
With cellphones for brains, a set of floating robots could soon be zipping around the International Space Station, helping astronauts with menial tasks
Black hole binge could test general relativity
Cloud of gas swirling towards the black hole at the centre of our galaxy might allow us to test Einstein鈥檚 greatest theory in a new way
Orcas battle sperm whales in cetacean battle royal
A pack of killer whales with an ambitious appetite takes on a pod of sperm whales in an ocean-boiling battle, observed for the first time in the Indian Ocean
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Psychiatry divided as mental health 鈥榖ible鈥� denounced
The US National Institute of Mental Health has slammed the validity of DSM-5 saying 鈥減atients with mental disorders deserve better鈥�
Living without smell or flavour
Taste and smell disorders can be devastating, but often such problems get no treatment. Carl Philpott aims to change that
The swarm: stand by for the deafening cicada orgy
Hundreds of millions of noisy insects with sex on the brain are about to emerge from the soil across a wide swathe of the eastern US
Painted turtles set to become all-female
Climate change may mean all painted turtles are born female, driving them to extinction
Feedback: Read before you ride
Cycling T&Cs, wine ageing magnets, wheatgrass juice, and more
Does online 鈥榮lacktivism鈥� reduce charitable giving?
Clicking on online petitions and 鈥渓iking鈥� Facebook statuses to show your support for a cause might not be that helpful
Micro-ratchet spins pearls with perfect symmetry
It took humans hundreds of thousands of years to invent the wheel, but molluscs have been turning out flawless spheres for hundreds of millions of years.
Zoologger: The hibernating lemur that feeds on its tail
Dwarf lemurs are the only primates that hibernate, and the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is the oddest of the lot
