Quirky (with a dash of genius)!

The European Union stages what it says is its biggest security exercise involving a DDoS attack on banks and other organisations.

A bite from the black mamba snake (Dendroaspis polylepis) can kill an adult human within 20 minutes. But mixed in with that toxic venom is a new natural class of compound that could be used to help develop new painkillers.

Imagine an electronic medical implant that, like dissolvable stitches, could disintegrate after it is no longer needed. An innovative combination of silk and silicon have now been used to create just such ephemeral but effective devices, including diodes, transistors, mini heaters and stress sensors.

A revolution was occurring. For the first time in 3.6 billion years, life had subverted the evolutionary process and began to steer it not with natural selection, but artificial selection.

Oxfam is piloting a new store design concept at its five of its shops across the UK.

An experiment led at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests that the Standard Model, which describes how subatomic particles interact, may have some flaws.

A new type of game will mine your social media to personalise the experience...

Hubble observations of a speedy galaxy weigh on the Milky Way and indicate that our galaxy is at least a trillion times as massive as the sun...

This new device does little more than move plastic balls from one place to another, but we relish its sheer complexity. The machine took 600 hours to make and moves the balls around a 31-meter-long pathway.

In the din of a faraway rainforest, human capacity for fairy tales and fright can be rekindled by extremely distant cousins to our own kingdom. Luis Morgado told the tale:

“…in the night of the tropical rainforest we found something that would make even the most rational scientist wonder about the magical world.”

Using bioluminescent light, fungus attract insects to help spread spores in the still air of the dense rainforest – and spread that magical sense of awe biologists in a new ecosystem experience.

Controversial new experiments suggest chilli seeds can sense neighbouring plants even if those neighbours are sealed in a box...