AI fantasy football manager picks a winning team
An artificial fantasy football manager has come in the top one per cent of players just by analysing statistics
Calling the next Trevor Baylis
Wind-up radios helped changed the developing world. The search is now on for similar cheap technologies to aid sustainable development, says Ulrike Wahl
Earth's oldest impact crater found in Greenland
A gigantic asteroid smashed into Greenland 3 billion years ago, making the crater it left behind the oldest on Earth - but the finding is controversial
Giant living power cables let bacteria respire
Bacteria living in sulphur-rich mud respire by organising themselves into living power cables
Cyborg makes art using seventh sense
Meet the colour-blind man with a prosthetic eyepiece that allows him to "see" colours as sounds - and create unique artworks out of them
Shaking metallic grains turns them into tunable laser
The unorthodox laser could lead to crisper medical images and help unlock the mysterious behaviour of granular materials such as sand dunes and avalanches
Wanna be the leader? You gotta have friends
Macaque groups simply follow their mates, so the macaque with the best connections automatically becomes leader
World's thinnest screen created from soap bubble
See a new display made from soap film that can mimic different textures and create vivid 3D projections
Feedback: Uncertain in Llanfair PG
Hamster weight wanting, heights of absurdity, new fossil surprise, and more
Praying mantis bot has extra-nimble legs
A robot limb based on the versatile forelegs of the praying mantis could be used to walk, grab objects and manipulate them
Does solitary confinement breach the Eighth Amendment?
As a US congressional hearing considers whether solitary confinement constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, evidence of its psychological damage grows
Don't fence us in: Modern-day land grabs
From Midwest "missionaries" to Wall Street speculators, investors are grabbing massive swathes of common land, says Fred Pearce, especially in Africa
TV and radio signals take over when GPS goes wrong
The broadcast signals we take for granted can provide a very effective backup for the global positioning system
First private space telescope may hunt asteroids
The non-profit B612 Foundation announced plans today to launch a space telescope later this decade that will search for dangerous asteroids
Oldest pottery hints at cooking's ice-age origins
Fragments of pots from a Chinese cave are 20,000 years old, and may have been used to cook food during the depths of the last ice age
Titan's tides reveal hidden ocean that could host life
Combined with its organic resources, abundant liquid water could make Saturn's moon prime real estate for alien life - but that depends on the state of the ocean
Zoologger: Fish with elephant's nose and crystal eyes
Peters' elephantnose fish doesn't just have a trunk that detects electric fields, it has bizarre eyes that have adapted to its murky lifestyle
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