Rats driving cars, music and learning, cows and friendships, and very loud birds.
T-Rex kept a cool head, first AI developed human vaccine, and painstakingly mapping a mouse brain.
RIP Dr. Oliver Sacks, the link between lack of sleep and illness, climate change could affect nitrogen fixating-bacteria, New Horizons has a new target.
The Nobel Prizes for 2014, a Central Park blitz, inheriting traits from mum’s ex, and artificial penises grown in a lab.
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from banana peels to people dressed as polar bears!
3D Printed skulls, airborne Black Death, marble hand illusion, the Permian extinction, STAP fraud and acupuncture.
Last ditch attempt to save Kepler, the discoveries of a deep blue exoplanet and a new moon for Neptune. Plus, decapitated worms can regrow their heads and their memories.
$100m for BRAIN research, dream interpretation, procuring drugs for research and more!
Brain-to-brain communication between rats, the genetic impact of lack of sleep, old people on Mars, undersea vents and more!
Mice that detect bombs and forget fears, and the problems with science – sexism, funding cuts, jail sentences and more!