Technology Higgs certainty boosted by more complete analysis ATLAS scores a six Its discovery last month sparked a media storm but the Higgs boson is now even more of a sure thing. ATLAS, one of the two experiments behind the original discovery, has carried out a more complete analysis that boosts the statistical significance of the Higgs signal even further. The analysis also … 51¶¯Âþ
Space Asteroid miners want to turn rocks into spacecraft Eric Anderson (left) and Chris Lewicki (right) aim to launch asteroid-spotting telescopes by 2014 Not content with sending the first tourist into space and landing NASA's Mars rovers between them, Eric Anderson and Chris Lewicki have an outlandish plan to mine asteroids, backed by Google billionaires. But, they tell Paul Marks , that's just the … Opinion
Flying off a Shetland cliff in search of offal From this vantage point, fulmars may not look like the most graceful of birds. Yet they glide more elegantly than their gull lookalikes, floating effortlessly in the air as they rise on updrafts to reach breeding sites high on a cliff face. "They really are masters of the air," says photographer Andrew Parkinson , who … Regulars
Technology The algorithm that runs the world Its services are called upon thousands of times a second to ensure the world's business runs smoothly – but are its mathematics as dependable as we thought? Features
Cyborg makes art using seventh sense Read more: Click here to read a longer version of this story Meet Neil Harbisson , the colour-blind man with a prosthetic eyepiece that allows him to "see" colours as sounds – and create unique artworks out of them When did you realise you were colour blind? When I was a kid people noticed that … CultureLab
Enigma Number 1710 Carregio Since the second world war, car registrations in my country have consisted of three parts: the first is the four-figure year of manufacture, the second is made up of two letters, and the third consists of a number which, in my case, has three digits. However, we are now switching to all-digit car registrations, … Regulars
Feedback: No more snow on late night TV No more snow on late night TV DYSKEUOMORPHS – anachronistic representations of flawed technologies, such as on-screen clocks that replicate the mechanical juddering of a second hand – fascinate Feedback (10 September 2011) . Tim Cross writes to remind us of a potential recruit to the club: the "snow" on untuned analogue TV sets. As … Regulars