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Activity in the left hand side of the brain, specifically in areas of emotion, could explain why most people lean to the right before lips smack.
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial has some stiff competition when it comes to terrible computer game design.
If access to information online becomes more difficult, then it will be the communities on the fringes that lose out.
The Pirate Bay is among those accused of using customers’ computers to mine cryptocurrency.
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New research reveals the true nature of ‘Oumuamua, the cigar-shaped rock that recently visited Earth’s solar system.
If you find yourself humming White Christmas this year don’t worry … you’re not alone – and the science of earworms suggests why.
Social media sites should face tougher laws, but education is also key to tackling online abuse.
Thanks to new deep-learning techniques, AI has the potential to analyse, improve and contribute to the process of human discussion.
Using metaphors for cryptocurrencies helps people feel more familiar with the technology. But there’s a downside – we expect it to work just like regular money.
Citizen science isn’t just about charity – new research shows there are some quite unexpected benefits for participants.
The voluntary ITP is a much-needed service that translates science-related digital materials into Arabic for a general audience.
In Star Wars, ‘force lightning’ is a lethal weapon that can only be tackled with a lightsaber. But would it work in real life?
Digital and communication poverty is unhelpful – depriving prisoners is short-sighted.
Robots, like drones, are filtering the natural world through algorithms and turning the world into data.
We no longer perform surgery on babies without drugs, but a new study shows that we may be underestimating how much pain babies feel when they are under stress.
Allegations bring to the fore questions over the legitimacy of bitcoin – a sound investment tool or a massive scam?
Researchers are using epigenetics to find ways to ‘turn off’ bacteria’s ability to cause infections.
Scientists in New Zealand have discovered an extinct penguin known as Kumimanu biceae that was 1.77m tall.
Cosmologists who were hoping to be the next Einstein have had to bin their theories.
Limitations improve creativity: we think up solutions we would never have thought of in a lab.
A Native American tribe in California got a chance to reconnect with their past through virtual reality models of inaccessible, sacred sites.
Can philanthropy of the super-rich ever be better than taxation?
Jellyfish have a lot more going for them than blobby bodies and a sting.
A sudden flare and cooling of gas around a black hole has enabled astronomers to measure the magnetic field of a black hole for the first time – finding it much weaker than expected.