Eben Bayer 's company makes packaging from agricultural waste and the mycelium of mushrooms – he says the next step is to make building materials this way
This gloriously freakish fringe tree frog looks like it belongs in a Hayao Miyazaki fantasy, but in fact it lives in a safe haven that's almost as magical
William Blake's death mask (with EEG) next to a Cyberman's head and a gargoyle: a new exhibition crosses the lines between humans and the things we make
If we want to progress towards a theory of everything, we need to understand how space and time fit together – if they do at all, says Anil Ananthaswamy (full text available to subscribers)
A new zone of crust-swallowing geological faults seems to be opening in the Atlantic – the vast ocean may have "caught" subduction from the dying Mediterranean
A model of Curiosity is the latest of the many Lego space kits: it was demanded by thousands of space fans and designed by an engineer from the real Mars rover
