Light hits near infinite speed in silver-coated glass
A new metamaterial is the first with a refractive index near zero, allowing light waves to propagate ultrafast over nano-distances
Fact and fiction blur as Captain Kirk tweets astronaut
Truth got stranger than fiction in low Earth orbit when the crew of the starship Enterprise exchanged messages with the crew of the International Space Station
Sea level rise could lead to a cooler, stormier world
If sea level rises significantly due to global warming, chilled seas caused by melting icebergs might temporarily cool the planet's surface
Climate change looms large as Australia swelters
Australia is baking in record-breaking heat, threatening to unleash the worst firestorms since 2009
Abnormal timing in the womb may cause miscarriage
Repeated miscarriages may be due to abnormal signals that make the uterus receptive to an embryo for too long
Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens
Forget particles and waves. When it comes to the true guise of material reality, what's out there is beyond our grasp, says Anil Ananthaswamy
Chad's 'mountains of hunger' as rendered by Turner
It may look like a Turner, but this dramatic image is actually a snapshot of the Tibesti mountains that straddle Chad and Libya taken from space
West vs Asia education rankings are misleading
Western schoolchildren are routinely outperformed by their Asian peers, but worrying about it is pointless, says MacGregor Campbell
Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages
A new technique embeds secret data in the silent gaps between words during a Skype call, making it very hard to detect
Graphic in-car crash warnings to slow speeding drivers
Tell drivers what might happen to them and their car if they continue speeding and they might just slow down
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