Syria chemical weapons deadline needs fair seas
Syria needs to get its remaining chemical weapons out of the country by the end of April to have any hope of meeting the June destruction deadline
Killing with kindness: Conservation鈥檚 cautionary tale
What looked like a classic conservation success story nearly ended in disaster. The Chatham Island black robin reveals the hidden perils of intervention
Cuts and red tape are gagging US and Canadian science
Politicians in the US and Canada are undermining scientific freedom through cuts, shutdowns and media policies, says Index on Censorship editor Rachael Jolley
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We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine
A neuroscientist and a musician explain how they built the Brain Stethoscope, which is both brain scanner and musical instrument
Submarine drone dives into hunt for missing MH370 jet
An autonomous underwater vehicle is being dispatched on a series of 24-hour-long missions to look for the lost Malaysia Airlines flight
German energy crisis points towards climate solution
Europe鈥檚 powerhouse is leading the fight against climate change, but its push for renewables has left it burning ever more coal
No option left but to suck CO2 out of air, says IPCC
It鈥檚 too late to avoid dangerous climate change just by switching to renewable energy, so we will also have to pull the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere
鈥楤ig Bird鈥� space neutrino has highest energy yet seen
A playfully named subatomic particle is confirmed, and beats rivals Bert and Ernie in terms of energy. Next step: to find a cluster of space neutrinos
Dante鈥檚 wildfire inferno in Chile鈥檚 historic port city
Valpara铆so鈥檚 natural amphitheatre of wooded hills has become a cauldron of smoke and flame after a forest fire took root in the coastal city
Einstein鈥檚 waves would make a cosmic overture
We haven鈥檛 heard a single gravitational wave in the century since Einstein said they should exist. Hopefully, that鈥檚 about to change
We鈥檙e offering $2m for the best ocean acidity mapping
To keep the seas healthy, we need to measure how they are changing. It鈥檚 no simple task, but here鈥檚 an incentive, says oceans X Prize director Paul Bunje
Einstein鈥檚 silence: Listening for space鈥�>Are RNA fragments making gene tweaks in descendants?
Strands of genetic material known as microRNAs could explain how what happens in your life can cause genetic changes and diseases in subsequent generations
Exclusive: My lab鈥�>Grand Canyon struggles to repel invading beefalo
Rangers in the national park want to evict herds of beefalo, a hybrid of American buffalo and domestic cattle, which are wreaking havoc on the ecosystem
