The Pioneer Anomaly may not be anomalous

A strange anomaly in the movement of the Pioneer probes may have been explained

Cortisol knocks height fear on the head

Scientists have discovered that a dose of one of the body's own stress chemical, cortisol, can neutralise a fear of heights.

Cooling with waste heat

Fridges that are powered by heat are being improved

Life-lengthening drug to dye for

A tissue dye, called ThT and used commonly in pathology labs to stain proteins, appears also to have significant life-lengthening effects in some species.

Watching the Worm May Turn Voters

In last year’s general elections, we had the exciting spectacle of a leaders debate, and to help us get an idea of how well the speakers were doing, we could watch “the worm” - a real-time computer generated graph that showed how much a sub set of the audience approved or disapproved of the comments...