Bat killer identified, but deaths continue
Fungus confirmed as the cause of "white nose syndrome" deaths in bats, but still no cure in sight
Zoologger: Horror hagfish is Halloween hardcase
Despite not having any jaws, hagfish hunt other fish, deter predators with slime, and eat rotting corpses from the inside out
Dinosaur teeth hold first clues to migration
Some 150 million years ago, vast herds of sauropods made seasonal migrations out of the dry floodplains of the western US and up into the greener highlands
The Israeli children who are suing for being born
Why are more and more people in Israel with genetic disorders filing lawsuits for "wrongful life"?
Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system
The Facebook Immune System polices 800 million users, spots spammers in seconds, and can act without human intervention. But there's a way past its defences
Ka-ching! The future of cash in an app
Kaching lets users transfer cash by simply clicking on the phone number, email or Facebook ID of the intended recipient
Engineering electronic music, from oddity to ubiquity
A lampshade, an egg slicer and a hacked Speak & Spell are among the unexpected instruments of early electronic music.
Robot Venus flytraps could eat bugs for fuel
Two prototype insect-eating robots have been developed that employ smart materials to rapidly ensnare their prey
Code red: Repairing blood in the emergency room
We'll patch you up later - let's fix your blood first, says a controversial new approach to life-or-death medical emergencies
Childhood poverty leaves its mark on adult genetics
Genomes of adults raised in poor or rich households have distinctive patterns of epigenetic change - perhaps a response to early adversity
Things you never knew that nobody knows
Take a giggle-inducing whirlwind tour through 501 of The Things that Nobody Knows, led by former chess champion William Hartston
Climate unknown: How things will change in each region
Which regions are going to turn into tropical paradises? Which into unbearably humid hellholes? It would be useful to know. Unfortunately, we don't
What is it like to work at the Large Hadron Collider?
Particle physicist Amita Raval reveals what it is like to work on the world's most exciting experiment
Wolf packs don't need to cooperate to make a kill
The seemingly complex behaviours of wolf packs can be reproduced by simple rules, suggesting that pack hunting is easy to evolve
Internet responsible for 2 per cent of global energy usage
The internet consumes between 170 and 307 GW: but is that is a big number, or a small one?
Birth of biotech: Revisiting Genentech's glory days
A book about biotech pioneer Genentech from the company's point of view skimps on science in favour of a glossy tale of daring and chutzpah
Climate known: The planet is going to get a lot hotter
Extra carbon dioxide means a warmer world - and then positive feedback effects from things like water vapour and ice loss will make it warmer still
Climate unknown: Just how much hotter things will get
On current trends the temperature rise could exceed 4 ?C as early as the 2060s. But even that could be an underestimate
Sanatoriums could battle drug-resistant TB boom
Tuberculosis resistant to antibiotics is surging in Europe - it may be time to bring back tried-and-tested sanatoriums
Faster-than-light neutrino result to get extra checks
Physicists are running extra tests to check the claim - it could assuage the concerns of team members who withheld their names from the preprint
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