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Disability and technology: No more neural divide
Technology can be divisive, but it also gives us the opportunity to build a society that accommodates everyone’s needs

Phew! Earth won’t end up as a Venus-like hell
Earth’s evil twin Venus was born hot and dry, so our planet is not destined to become a hellish wasteland, after all

Panicky ants help design safest exit strategy
Making people panic isn’t ethical, so engineers have turned to ants to help them design safer buildings that are easier to exit in an emergency

Hands up! Do you speak digital body language?
A new gestural vocabulary for controlling computers is at our fingertips – it will transform the way we navigate the digital world, finds MacGregor Campbell

Latest Kinect sensors allow games to feed off your fear
Microsoft’s depth-sensing camera will gain unprecedented information about us while we play, allowing games to adjust their difficulty in response

Quantum gravity takes singularity out of black holes
Applying a quantum theory of gravity to black holes eliminates the baffling singularity at their core, leaving what looks like a portal to another universe

The top new tech that took Hillary’s team up Everest
Sixty years on from Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s first successful ascent of Everest, see some of the technological innovations that made it possible

We’ve reached a troubling carbon dioxide milestone
Atmospheric scientist Ralph Keeling explains the importance of measuring a CO₂ concentration of 400 parts per million at the observatory his father set up

Missing moon dust discovered in storage after 43 years
Vials of lunar rocks brought back to Earth by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have been discovered gathering dust in a California warehouse

Nearest exoplanet to Earth may be a ghost world
Doubt is cast on the apparent detection last year of an Earth-like planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, just 4.3 light years away