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These cells produce 10-50 watts of power per m2, and could be used to laminate the windows of skyscrapers, giving them an additional source of power. Or they could be printed onto materials such as steel, meaning they could be embedded into roofs of buildings.

Over 10 days in November 1983, the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Now newly declassified documents reveal just how close we reached a mutual destruction -- because of an exercise.

Scientists have made an embryonic clone of a person, using DNA from that person's skin cells. In the future, such a clone could be a source of stem cells, for super-personalized therapies made from people's own DNA.

The rush to embrace and console every gay man who comes out is infantilizing and condescending — but it's a script written and promoted by GLAAD and reinforced by a sanctimonious establishment of gay men that rewards those who play by the rules — and punishes those who don't. Novelist Bret Easton Ellis on why he refuses to take his bitch-slapping lying down.

We have to invest in technology to remove the CO2 already in the atmosphere.

For years Suren Manvelyan has been making extreme macro photos of both human and animal eyes, and he's just released a new batch of purely animal eyes that are equally stunning.

The alpha wolf is a figure that looms large in our imagination. The notion of a supreme pack leader who fought his way to dominance and reigns superior to the other wolves in his pack informs both our fiction and is how many people understand wolf behavior. But the alpha wolf doesn't exist — at least not in the wild.

Millions of people say they love watching long, dull videos of folding towels or hair dryers. Why? It could be a curious condition that didn’t exist until 2010.

Mary Roach takes us on a tour through the alimentary canal to explain our biology from the perspective of bacteria. 

George Monbiot: The only way forward is back: to retrace our steps and seek to return atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to around 350ppm.

An optical illusion can change the implicit biases of Caucasian people against people with darker skin, according to a study published in the August 2013 edition of Cognition.

In a 1968 plane crash, the US military lost an atom bomb in Greenland's Arctic ice. But this was no isolated case. Up to 50 nuclear warheads are believed to have gone missing during the Cold War, and not all of them are in unpopulated areas.

Andrew Brown: Some say our capacity for abstract thought is a cognitive trick, yet this argument undermines itself. Can we trust our reason?

Hadley Freeman: In publicly discussing her double mastectomy, the actor has challenged the celebrity industry to rethink its bizarre values – and she has done all women a huge service.

The news that famous physicist Stephen Hawking has decided to join the academic boycott of Israel has attracted some heated commentary. But to better understand this controversy, it is useful to look at boycotts as a form of nonviolent action and the role of academics as activists.

If you're still reeling from the horsemeat scandal, hold on to your hats – there may well be arsenic in your beer and rat hair in your chocolate.

Although the act of publishing seems to entail sharing your research with the world, most published papers sit behind paywalls. The journals that publish them charge thousands of dollars per subscription, putting access out of reach to all but the most minted universities.

DNA has become a sacred entity -- the modern equivalent of the Christian soul, an individual's essence, writes Donna Dickenson.

British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness.

As society evolves, so do our curse words. Here's how some of the most famous ones developed -- and a few new ones.