Science Selections

I wanted to build software to navigate medical jargon, but ended up revealing plagiarism and fraud, by Harold "Skip" Garner.

Researchers are find that online collaboration can speed up their work - if they choose the right problem, by Philip Ball

Video games could transform education, but game designers, teachers & parents must overcome hype and fear," by Alan Gershenfeld.

A hard-won political victory for primate research is at risk of unravelling in pockets of Europe, by Alison Abbott

Why you shouldn't be surprised when the same six winning lottery numbers come up in successive drawings, by David J. Hand

Some people can remember events from 20 years ago almost as well as those of yesterday," by James L. McGaugh and Aurora LePort

Supermassive black holes at the centre of large galaxies are full of mysteries. Astronomers are finally getting a clear look, by Ron Cowen

Climate Change: The Case of the Missing Heat. Why the Apparent Stall in Global Temperature Rise? by Jeff Tollefson.

Using massive amounts of data to recognize photos and speech, deep-learning computers take a big step towards true A.I., by Nicola Jones

Opposition to his revolutionary idea of Earth revolving about the sun also came from scientists, by Dennis Danielson and Christopher Graney

A Long Slow Rise: The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking, by Vaclav Smil

A strange fungal disease in Canada and the Northwestern U.S. heralds a new threat to human health," by Jennifer Frazer

Most think face recognition needs a complex brain. But some insects are pretty good at it, by Elizabeth A. Tibbetts and Adrian G. Dyer

A billion years ago, a huge rift nearly cut North America in two, and then stopped. Researchers may soon find why. By Jessica Marshall

For millennia humans have relied on one another to recall needed info. Now we rely on the cloud. By Daniel Wegner and Adrian Ward

The quest for supercarbon. Graphene promises a technological revolution, but can fundamental problems be overcome? By Mark Peplow

Modern genomes and ancient mummies yield clues to why our life span far exceeds that of other primates. By Heather Pringle.

BMW's highly efficient laser headlights will turn night into day for its upcoming all-electric supercar. By Lawrence Ulrich.

Digital traces we leave reveal much about us. Privacy nightmare - or the basis of a healthy, prosperous world? By Alex Pentland

Future devices will let astronomers view the interior of black holes and observe the early history of time." By Ross D. Andersen