Hearing implant uses lasers to shoot sound into your ear

Hearing implant uses lasers to shoot sound into your ear: Using lasers instead of electrodes to vibrate the hairs in the inner ears could lead to less damaging cochlear implants

How social stress makes your brain vulnerable to depression

How social stress makes your brain vulnerable to depression: Bullying and other social stresses may make it easier for inflammatory substances to enter your brain, altering your mood and leaving you susceptible to depression

Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl

Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl: Like portraits and pictures in Harry Potter, your Facebook image will soon react to visitors’ actions with happiness, sadness, or anger

Grow fake versions of rare delicacies like sea urchin at home

Grow fake versions of rare delicacies like sea urchin at home: Japanese meat culturing project goes beyond hamburger to copy problematic delicacies like sea urchin, foie gras - and someday maybe dinosaur

Gluten-sensitive? It may actually be a carb making you ill

Gluten-sensitive? It may actually be a carb making you ill: Rather than gluten, fructan molecules seem to be to blame for sensitive guts. If true, gluten-free people could eat soy sauce and sourdough bread again

A bizarre supernova keeps exploding over and over again

A bizarre supernova keeps exploding over and over again: The weirdest supernova ever seen is a zombie star that keeps collapsing and coming back to life. It’s so strange, it may be a whole new kind of celestial object

Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

Shark on the menu: Species hunted for their fins

Shark on the menu: Species hunted for their fins: The rising popularity of shark's fin soup in China is increasing fishing for sharks across the globe. Let's see which species are on the menu

Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in

Sharks now protected no matter whose waters they swim in: 126 countries have signed up to cross-border protection measures to conserve whale sharks and many other endangered migratory species