Science
The brain actually ‘beats’… just like the heart, say scientists.
And its tiny movements - less than the width of a human hair - have been caught on film for the first time.
Memory fades as people get older because their brain runs out of gas… just like an ‘old banger’
Mitichondria, tiny 'power stations' that fuel all cells make less power in the brain with age
Rocks near dried out lakes may show life really did emerge on Mars, say Scottish scientists.
The iron rich sediments are the likeliest place to find fossilised microbes dating back three to four billion years.
Compassion meditation can work on stress, racial prejudice, anxiety, autism with kind thoughts
The study suggests that it helps people become calmer in the face of suffering - and may benefit conditions ranging from social anxiety disorder to autism
Pterosaurs flew like birds rather than bats
Discovery has implications for the evolution of flight
British scientists find new cure for deadliest cancer in tea leaves
"Exciting" experiments found leaf extract kills four fifths of tumours
Scientists unveil world’s fastest ‘kettle’
It heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Centigrade - in under a trillionth of a second
Scientists are using the most unlikely part of Britain to model as Mars
The Dorset countryside - forever associated with the novels of Thomas Hardy - has stood in for Mars as scientists hunt for life on the red planet
Hominid species that existed around the time of the first ever humans had a similar but much smaller brain
Raises the possibility the extinct species may have behaved like humans, using language and stone tools