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Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism - there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else ...

Feedback dives into a new piece of research on the merits of swimming briefs or looser swimming shorts - and raises an eyebrow at its conclusion ...

It might sound like dystopian science fiction, but discovering how to reshape memories responsibly is helping us to heal the brain from within, says Steve Ramirez ...

Captive giant pandas have been seen breaking off twigs and bamboo pieces to scratch hard-to-reach spots, using a crude opposable thumb that other bears don't have ...

Scientists have finally assigned foot bones found in 2009 to an ancient human species, and the move suggests that different types of hominins lived close by in harmony ...

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal illnesses ...

Unexplained gamma ray radiation coming from the edge of the Milky Way galaxy could be produced by self-annihilating dark matter particles - but the idea requires further investigation ...

The laws of thermodynamics don't accurately account for the complex processes in living cells - do we need a new one to accurately measure the ways living systems are out of equilibrium?

Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we're discovering we can train them to be even more efficient ...

See some of the winning entries for this year's Oceania Photo Contest, including Miesa Grobbelaar's shot of a whale, which took the top prize ...