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The crisis of mental disorders such as PTSD has forced the military to rediscover therapies that would have considered from-the-fringes a generation ago.

Researchers have built a touchscreen that can distinguish individual users based on how electricity passes through their bodies

An eight-year debate over supersolids is drawing to a close with the first suggestion from their discoverer that the initial claimed observation was flawed

Conflicting evidence of North Korean activity in 2010 forces us to ask if monitoring systems are good enough to make a test-ban treaty enforceable

An operating system that runs fully in the cloud could bring in a new era of super-adaptable "dumb terminals"

The slowly evaporating planet 55 Cancri b could help explain why some worlds have atmospheres while others don't

Shorebirds have returned to San Francisco Bay for the winter. Find out about their journeys and studies underway to track their migration and population.

Within days sharpshooters will begin killing badgers in a bid to stop them infecting cows with TB – the science justifying it doesn't convince everyone

Within days sharpshooters will begin killing badgers in a bid to stop them infecting cows with TB – the science justifying it doesn't convince everyone

Weather eye on cloud computing, free will for free, exploding colons, and more (full text available to subscribers)

Starting with syphilitic Shakespeare, John Ross tours the demises of literary great minds in Orwell's Cough PLUS ethics of synthetic life and updating Aristotle

See a new illusion where changes in brightness create phantom motion

The launch of a new satellite will provide broadband access for millions in Africa, without having to rely on fault-prone undersea cables

The scourge of bad science is at it again. This time Ben Goldacre has got the powerful pharmaceutical industry in his sights. And he's very angry (full text available to subscribers)

This turkey-sized dinosaur looked very different from its 'Jurassic Park' depiction.