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New ideas about what depression is and how to treat it are being held back by a lack of commercial interest.
Shaking hands builds trust, and the same applies whether it’s a human or robot hand you’re shaking.
The magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit Nepal this week should be classed as an aftershock rather than a second earthquake.
New results from the Large Hadron Collider further could help eliminate some theoretical possibilities for what lies beyond the standard model of particle physics.
A word of advice: don’t try and build your own cryptography. It’s hard and others have done it better.
Research into how feelings and opinions can be shaped using technology or drugs could impact the whole of society not just the individuals concerned.
The UK’s commitment to a referendum on EU membership could already be harming the UK’s reputation in science.
Online voting could boost turnout, but a flawed system could destroy faith in the voting process.
Baboons shed light on the irony of social networks: cliques limit information sharing.
Aid organisations already in Nepal should be able to lead disaster relief following the second earthquake.
Germs on shoes and mobile phones are a good way of tracing criminal suspects, finds study.
An exotic plasma could help shed light on why the universe as we know it is made up of more matter than antimatter.
Rombertik malware will happily take the nuclear option on your hard drive.
Freed of the Liberal Democrats’ influence, here are some of the things the Conservative government has in store for us.
The election brings a new government: what does the next five years hold in store for UK technology plc?
Japan has the most powerful seismic network in the world. And this network is throwing out some warning signs.
The nose knows how to get a hold of your senses when immersed in virtual reality.
The discovery of a white dwarf star with hydrogen and oxygen in its atmosphere suggests water could be planted on stars and planets by bodies like asteroids.
Legislation is passed in France that would see state surveillance powers scale towards those in the US and UK.
Microbe can explain how ancient ancestors of simple cells like bacteria evolved into the complex cells that make up humans.
If the money is in the cloud, it makes sense to take as many users there as possible.
Fossils of the oldest bird ever pushes back the evolutionary record for birds by nearly six million years.
Sexist peer review case sheds light on the need to tackle gender and racial discrimination in universities.
There’s ways to help tackle digital distraction - but they all revolve around you wanting to change.