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A Science special package explores the rise of research on research

Katla is a surprisingly big emitter of carbon dioxide

Declaring in advance what you're going to study, and how, helps avoid p-hacking and publication bias

Misreporting and sloppy statistics undermine flashy findings on unconscious eating habits

What went wrong on the 26 April 1986 disaster and what continued to go wrong in the days, weeks and years that followed

Symmetric compound self-assembles into holey lattice that can self-heal and store gases

The new claims are a blow for the theory – but the ongoing saga of a fiendish 500-page proof could expose fundamental flaws in the way mathematicians work

Mike Souza’s creations are invaluable for a wide range of scientific projects

Gene-to-RNA-to-medicine pipeline possible thanks to technique that reveals interactions between RNA and small molecules

Adversarial images that trick computers into seeing what isn’t there are a big problem for AI – but mimicking human perception might provide a fix

Call it a minimal Turing test

The latest in an alarming trend of novel psychoactive substances being mis-sold at festivals as traditional street drugs, putting users at risk

Airlift will bring new animals to isolated national park in Lake Superior

Unfamiliar contaminants and lag time in testing methods could increase health risks to locals

A small robot could travel through your gut and collect mucus in a vacuum bag to help make diagnosing stomach diseases safer and less painful

I’m not entirely sure why anyone would want to exclude spiders from their home, my preference would be to have a flyeater in each corner of the room to eat the flies. Flies spread disease. Spiders modulate diptera activity. Anyway, every autumn, the deceived wisdom that putting conkers, the seed of the horse chestnut tree,  Aesculus … Continue reading "Conkering spiders"

Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers

Strategy appears to be an unusual way to get nutrients

This week’s top Science news

Passing a gentle electric current through the abdomen encourages bowel movements in people with chronic constipation, a clinical trial has found

Being told not to remember something makes you less likely to remember it in future – and now a study has found this can happen without you even realising it

Handedness of an oligopeptide changes in different solvents

It’s approaching Nobel season again, and here are my predictions: Chemistry: Cytoskeletal motor proteins (Ron Vale, Mike Sheetz, Jim Spudich) Medicine: T-cell and cancer immunotherapy (Jim Allison, Stephen Rosenberg, Philippa Marrack) Physics: Dark matter (Sandra Faber, Margaret Geller, Jerry Ostriker, Helen Quinn) I know I’ve made this prediction before, but I think it’s high time that the discovery of kinesin […]