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A weak solar maximum might sound like a blessing but could leave us wide open in 2024

Now we know the true scale of the threat from H5N1 avian flu we should put the people who know how to stop it in charge, says Debora MacKenzie

Investigators could soon probe a crime scene for clues remotely, and help officers on site by interacting through an augmented reality system

Advocacy group says that NOAA scientist "lowballed" how much oil was leaking during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, against colleagues' opinion

Democrat and Republican voters' views on touchstone issues are not as strongly polarised as they assume – but mistrustful activists may often swing elections

Rainfall patterns over east Africa have changed in a way that makes severe droughts more likely – aid agencies need to rethink the way they operate

The best way to get teens interested in science is to wash its dirty laundry in public, says Michael Brooks

Insights from brain science are finally coming into the classroom with a method based on seeing patterns, finds Peter Aldhous

Will Scotland vote to leave the United Kingdom? A social psychological analysis may provide clues, say Dominic Abrams and Peter Grant

Ancient Egyptian embalmers mummified the organs of sacrificed ibis birds, even filling them with food so they wouldn't go hungry in the afterlife

The Nuremberg Code, set up to protect the human subjects of research, is being routinely ignored, warns Harriet A. Washington

Combine entanglement with apparent randomness to keep data on shared quantum computers safe from prying eyes

After decades battling to keep creationism out of classrooms, science education supporters are preparing to face a new foe: climate change sceptics

Successive global falls in abortion rates have stalled, and failure to help the poor get contraception may be to blame

A barrage of experiments seems to show that we can predict the future – but they may tell us more about the scientific method, says Bob Holmes