A Musical Memory Tour
For many of us, songs by the Beatles trigger vivid and...
Facial Recognition
How do we recognise faces and are there different ways of...
Sound Masking
How has the brain evolved to cope in a noisy world?...
Morning sickness may be sign of a bright baby
SICK of morning sickness? Take heart: it may be a sign...
Canadian dig yields tiny dinosaur
The smallest meat-eating dinosaur yet to be found in North America...
Beatles’ tunes aid memory recall
The world’s largest catalogue of Beatles-related recollections will be unveiled in...
Magic ‘boosts pupils’ confidence’
Children taught how to do magic tricks instead of attending standard...
Bees join hunt for serial killers
The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down...
Stroking reveals pleasure nerve
A new touch-sensitive nerve fibre responsible for the sense of pleasure...
Fusion power seeks super steels
Scientists say an understanding of how the Twin Towers collapsed will...
Foods ‘should label up eco-costs’
Food packaging could be embedded with computer chips that instantly link...
Ocean mission delivers first maps
Less than a month after it was put in orbit, the...
Geological mapping gets joined up
The world’s geologists have dug out their maps and are sticking...
Hungry seals ‘steer by the stars’
Seals can identify a single star in the night sky and...
World’s smallest snake discovered
The world’s smallest snake, averaging just 10cm (4 inches) and as...
Elastic electronics see better
A new camera designed with a curved detection surface allows imaging...
Ancient shark had colossal bite
The great white shark may have awesome jaws but they are...
Pet dogs can ‘catch’ human yawns
Yawning is known to be contagious in humans but now scientists...
Sub to make deep Caribbean dive
Scientists are set to explore the world’s deepest undersea volcanoes, which...
Arsenic-munching bacteria found
In the warm, bubbling pools of Mono Lake in California, scientists...
