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Raised from the depths, the face of the Mary Rose
A skeleton from the wreck of the Mary Rose reveals the hard knocks of life aboard Henry VIII's greatest warship, which became the grave for 500 sailors

Zoologger: The sea cow with super-sensing hairs
Despite their huge size, Florida manatees are hypersensitive creatures, navigating with the help of hairs that can sense water currents at the nanoscale

It's time to start mining the moon
The precious resources we need to develop solutions to our energy problems are too costly on Earth, says entrepreneur Naveen Jain

Skylab: The trailblazing outpost in space
Forty years on from Skylab's launch, we look back at how the space station taught us much about how humans perform in orbit and how to design future craft

Beavers are born to bite wood, not people
A beaver has killed a man in Belarus, but despite this we should understand how the animal aids ecosystems, says the manager of Scotland's reintroduction trial

Feedback: Chill out with a drop of oxygen
The power of liquid oxygen, excellent errors, SatNav for supper, and more

Fast-approaching asteroid has its own small moon
The first radar images of 1998 QE2, a 2.7-kilometre space rock due to swoop past Earth today, show that it is bringing an unexpected companion

Personal clouds let you take control of your own data
A startup that lets you have your own cloud servers at home is part of a movement that is turning its back on conventional cloud computing

'Dawn bird' sees Archaeopteryx return to bird fold
Archaeopteryx lost its place among the birds in 2011 ? the discovery of an even older bird helps to restore the famous fossil to its perch

Tingly projections make beamed gadgets come alive
Imagine having an illuminated keypad projected onto your hand which stays in place even as you move, and tingles gently when you press a "button"

Return trips to Mars pose unacceptable radiation risk
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover suggests that astronauts flying to the Red Planet and back would be hit by high levels of radiation

Silent forests are bad news for the trees
The palm forests of southern Brazil may look healthy, but they are losing the large birds and other animals that are vital for some trees to disperse their seeds

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