Privacy conscious CCTV takes you out of the picture
By selectively removing people and other objects from footage, a company seeks to protect the privacy of people caught on CCTV
Monkey malaria jumping to humans and on the rise
The disease was thought to be rare in humans, but last year 68 per cent of people hospitalised with malaria in Malaysian Borneo were infected with it
Feedback: Read, watch and forget
Silence and gold, infinitely many ineffables, numbers are provably interesting and more
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The world鈥檚 most notorious acid bath murderers
Murderers have been using acid and lye to cover their tracks for more than a century. Let New Scientist introduce you to the grisliest and most prolific
First world war dysentery bug was penicillin-resistant
A dysentery bug called Shigella that killed a soldier in 1915 was resistant to penicillin 13 years before the antibiotic was discovered
The acid test: Can you dissolve a body completely?
Think you can dissolve a body in an acid bath, Breaking Bad-style, and get away with it? Think again, says forensic scientist Erwin Vermeij
Oldest European genome illuminates diverse ancestry
The oldest ever European genome shows that much of the continent鈥檚 rich genetic mix stretches back over 30,000 years and survived the last ice age
Zoologger: Bats jam each other鈥檚 sonar to steal meals
The Mexican free-tailed bat sabotages the echolocation signals of its fellows so that it can home in on their winged prey for itself
Smart health monitors to predict your medical future
Lifelogging is more than just counting steps. More tech firms are trying to predict your health using data from devices like Fitbits