The good life?
Andy Rain/EPA
Our experts analyse the evidence on the Conservatives’ big ticket policies.
It’ll take more than a handshake to set the record straight.
Rui Vieira/PA Archive
The Conservatives’ statements on health do not stand up to scrutiny, while their promises on mental health are vague
Too good to be true?
Jonathan Brady/PA
Cameron spoke with considerable authority, and apparent sincerity. The problem lay not in the style, but rather the content.
Buried with a bag of nuts.
Barbara Ostrowska/EPA
Grass’s true legacy is not the piously delivered moral messages that many associate with him – but his humour.
Dreamtime.
Sleep by Shutterstock
When you sleep your brain consolidates memory and encodes experiences. A recent study sought to show how this was happening.
Star, director, hero.
Entertainment One
Russell Crowe’s directorial debut doesn’t pass the history tests – the film supplements one nationalist history with another.
Going it alone?
Stefan Rousseau/PA
Will no one come to the rescue of Britain’s beleaguered political pundits? Seemingly not. Those revered traditional game-changers of UK elections – the budget, a bruising interview with Jeremy Paxman…
Jonas the lemur defied his small size by living to the age of 29.
David Haring, Duke Lemur Center
A new study looking at a long-lived lemur species attributes it to their frequent hibernation-like state. But what lessons can humans learn from this?
This sort of 3D display you can’t buy in the shops.
Jason Alexander/Lancaster University
The iPad changed the way we interact with screens, but the physical, 3D touchscreens of the future will change it more radically still.
These streets were made for driving.
Matt Cornock
The most common way to get around is also the most neglected.
Yuck!
Russell Neches
There are reasons why disgust is a universal emotion but it can become a negative one when turned against the self.
How did it come to this? Sana'a after an air strike.
EPA/Yahya
Saudi Arabia could wait no longer to try and dampen the flames engulfing Yemen – but it may be too late.
How do you talk about cancer?
Cancer by Shutterstock
How we talk about illness is an individual process but some want there to be a right and wrong way.
Appearances can be misleading: Cameron’s comments were anything but casual.
Youtube/BBC News
In ruling out a third term, Cameron is sending a strong message to the Conservatives.
Extra services rolling out.
Martin Rickett/PA
Measures to co-locate employment support for mental health service users in Jobcentres may be less valuable than placing them elsewhere.
Aurora borealis lights up the sky over Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland, England.
Owen Humphreys/PA
How scientists tracked a massive emission from the sun right across the solar system.
Watch your step, George.
PA/Dominic Lipinski
It might be that this budget proves to have been too clever by half.
Expect Osborne to deliver a political budget.
PA Wire
A look at how the UK economy is doing ahead of what’s set to be a political budget from Conservative Chancellor George Osborne.
Streetfighting man.
EPA/Jim Hollander
The crucial ballot will take place against a rapidly moving international situation.
Look into my high-energy particle physics and what do you see?
CERN
For less than the cost of a single Typhoon jetfighter, the upgraded LHC will push our understanding of physics to the brink.