1.    June 18, 2013
How To Make Museums More Inviting For Kids With Autism
A day at a museum promises fun for parents and kids alike. But for children who are on the autism s...

2.    June 18, 2013
Wet summers down to warmer Atlantic
Meteorologists and scientists meeting at the Met Office say the UK's damp summers could be caused b...

3.    June 18, 2013
Isn't That King David? Nope, It's Just Dave
Take something old, familiar and classical, add denim, polyester and glasses, and watch what happen...

4.    June 18, 2013
TED: Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, internet access built for Africa - Juliana Rotich (2013)
Tech communities are booming all over Africa, says Nairobi-based Juliana Rotich, co-founder of the ...

5.    June 18, 2013
How Men's Choice Of Mates May Have Led To Menopause
Conventional wisdom holds that men prefer younger women as mates because they're more fertile than ...

6.    June 18, 2013
Echoes reveal the shape of a room
The geometric shape of a room can be mapped using the echoes from a sound recorded by four micropho...

7.    June 18, 2013
3-D Printer Brings Dexterity To Children With No Fingers
An enterprising carpenter and a creative puppeteer teamed up on a do-it-yourself project to build a...

8.    June 18, 2013
No straight answer to my bent fingers
A shift in a single protein leads to Dupuytren's contracture, but picking out the genes responsible...

9.    June 18, 2013
A new generation of addicts?
E-cigarettes are a way of weaning people off a product that has killed millions, but are they risk-...

10.    June 18, 2013
Dot Earth Blog: A Reality Check on a Plan for a Swift Post-Fossil Path for New York
A journal that published an ambitious plan for New York State to go fossil free in a few decades no...

11.    June 18, 2013
Europe's Mars missions 'on track'
Europe's plans to explore Mars with a satellite in 2016 and a rover in 2018 take a big step forward...

12.    June 18, 2013
NREL Offers an Open-Source Solution for Large-Scale Energy Data Collection and Analysis
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is launching an open-source sys...

13.    June 18, 2013
Weight loss 'can improve memory'
Slimming down can boost brain power improve, a study suggests.    

14.    June 17, 2013
On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World
William Sanford Nye, better known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, has gone from TV host to fierce defe...

15.    June 17, 2013
Medicine and Engineering Join Forces to Restore Disfigured Faces
Mathematical formulas help create facial structures for people with disfiguring injuries Full stor...

16.    June 17, 2013
TED: Didier Sornette: How we can predict the next financial crisis - Didier Sornette (2013)
The 2007-2008 financial crisis, you might think, was an unpredictable one-time crash. But Didier So...

17.    June 17, 2013
Why Men Die Younger Than Women: The 'Guys Are Fragile' Thesis
Death, it appears, prefers gentlemen to ladies. Women don't just outlive men, they consistently out...

18.    June 17, 2013
Herschel telescope switched off
Controllers sever all communications with Europe's billion-euro Herschel space telescope, formally ...

19.    June 17, 2013
China retakes supercomputer crown
A China-based supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest, offering nearly double the process...

20.    June 17, 2013
Gagarin air crash details emerge
New details have emerged about the air crash that killed Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space.