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Researchers have developed a method for estimating time of death in a body by tracking the degradation of proteins in the muscles up to 10 days after death.
Why should BT be required to provide a telephone service no one wants or needs?
Just because using ‘science’ to arrange marriages will entertain a TV audience, doesn’t make it ethical.
What gives horror-themed computer games their kick, and why do so many of us like it?
Is the shopping experience the next for a technological overhaul with virtual reality?
Researchers have tracked what our brain cells are up to when we remember something.
Retrofitting old or cheap houses with earthquake protection is often expensive and laborious. What if we could save whole streets at a time?
New research shows women’s faces become redder at their more fertile times but men’s response remains a mystery.
The rise of robots poses awkward legal questions that we’d be best off tackling sooner rather than later.
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka should think twice before attempting to spend another thouands days in space.
‘Place cells’ in the hippocampus are thought to guide us through our space but they may play a part in helping us to imagine future scenarios.
Ancient creepy-crawly “monster” had claws but no teeth.
Manipulating fluids on the nanoscale could help us build better lab-on-a-chip devices such as microrobots.
Declared ‘unachievable’ by a treasury watchdog, the zombie care.data scheme is back and still full of holes.
Clinical health research should stop ignoring important sex differences.
Suprising discovery of fundamental property of light could lead to applications in optical communications, metrology and quantum information processing.
The most powerful laser ever built could help us produce a machine that can turn energy into matter.
A unique map of the galaxies in the sky could shed light on the mysteries of the universe – including dark energy and dark matter.
The resources of those in cybercrime outstrip the agencies investigating them - we need more skilled digital forensic specialists fast.
As Wimbledon 2015 gets underway, the writing looks to be on the wall for Rafael Nadal. Will the Spaniard succeed where so many other top athletes have failed?
Smaller computer are coming to your pocket, and then your homes, your workplaces, and everywhere else.
Tackling extremist and terrorist propaganda online is vital, but must be done with safeguards in mind.
Scientists have identified the brain region that makes it possible for parrots to speak.
Machines are not very good at writing software from scratch, but they’re getting pretty good at improving on human efforts.