INNOVATION
Teaching robots some manners For robots, unlike computers, faster is not always better. Roboticists are learning to make their creations behave more like humans even if that means the robots must lose some of their efficiency
GREEN MACHINE
Sensors that save energy for the apathetic Better efficiency in the office could cut a building鈥檚 energy use by 40 per cent: a network of sensors could kill the lights or turn down the air conditioning for us
ZOOLOGGER
The glow-in-the-dark shark vanishes If you鈥檙e trying to hide, surely the last thing you want to do is glow. But if you鈥檙e a velvet belly lantern shark, it鈥檚 a bright idea
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VIRTUAL REALITY
The real Avatar: body transfer turns men into girls Last time you checked you were a conservatively dressed man. But you look down and notice that you now have the legs of a 10-year-old girl and appear to be wearing a skirt. We report on the first experiment to show that body ownership can be transferred to an entirely virtual body
BUMPOLOGY
From earthworm-brain to reptilian, then human It is a highly contentious question: when does a fetus become conscious, if at all? And if a premature baby is conscious, what does that mean for a fetus at the same stage? We examine the science of the fetal experience
PHYSICS
High five! Physicists create record 鈥榝at鈥� photon A record-breaking five photons have been entangled in a special state with echoes of Schr枚dinger鈥檚 cat. Believe it or not, they could be useful in high-resolution imaging