SpaceX prepares to launch first commercial flight to space station
In a major step towards space privatisation, SpaceX will send a Dragon capsule with supplies for the International Space Station
Brain implant allows paralysed woman to control a robot with her thoughts
The BrainGate implant can decode a patient's brain signals and instruct a robotic arm to reach and grasp objects
Huey Morgan and Joey Barton: why are men so angry on Twitter?
The Twitterverse has been ablaze with blokes getting things off their chests. Is it a guy thing?
Joint strike fighter stalled by technical problems
Each F35-B aircraft could cost more than £57m as cost overruns and design delays stall production
Texas hospital live-tweets brain surgery
Houston hospital pioneered live-tweeting last month during an open heart surgery, will answer questions and tweet pictures
Pilotless planes project begins test flights over Irish Sea
Astraea prototypes follow programmed instructions, with the aim that they could fly missions autonomously for days at a time
Supermoon makes photographers go crazy
Perigee moon appears 14% bigger and 30% brighter as it passes closer to Earth
Jeff Forshaw: quantum computers are leaping ahead
Quantum computers are ever closer to becoming a reality, and when they arrive they will revolutionise computing power, writes Jeff Forshaw
Oops, I invented the rocket! The explosive history of serendipity
Corrinne Burns: Velcro, Vaseline, Teflon, penicillin, and now perhaps the rocket – they were all happy accidents
Eye implants restore ‘useful sight’ to two blind patients
Doctors, led by Kings College and Oxford surgeons, restore rudimentary monochrome vision to trial patients
Wikipedia founder to help in government’s research scheme
Academic spring campaign aims to make all taxpayer-funded academic research available for free online
Open, free access to academic research? This will be a seismic shift
David Willetts: Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it
Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future
Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley and science, mix them with a heavy dose of utopianism and showmanship, and you've got the Singularity University – on a mission to seek technological solutions to the world's great challenges, writes Carole Cadwalladr
Apps Rush: Monty Python, Science Museum, Klout, Princess Poppy, ZombieSmash, EyeEm and more
Stuart Dredge: What's new on the app stores on Thursday 26 April 2012
No clear evidence that mobile phone radiation damages health
Largest review yet of published research finds that so far there has been 'no indication' of increased risk
Google pair back plan to lasso asteroids and mine them for precious metals
Seattle-based Planetary Resources company aims to turn science fiction into fact using unmanned rockets and moon base
Cosmic rays: the truth is still out there… somewhere
New research carried out beneath the Antarctic ice has dealt a blow to a favourite cosmic ray theory, writes Robin McKie
Academic publishing doesn’t add up
The world of university research has long been held to ransom by academic publishers charging exorbitant prices for subscriptions – but that may all be about to end, writes John Naughton
Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso… we just have to learn how
Want to be like Bob Dylan? Jonah Lehrer has looked at how creative minds work and suggests we can all be more innovative, writes Tim Lewis
Is it possible to choose your dreams?
Take part in an experiment to discover if an iPhone app can help you have the dreams you want
Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution
Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge
Afghanistan announces satellite tender
International partner sought to put Afghanistan's first satellite in orbit to improve the country's television and internet coverage
US draws up plans for nuclear drones
Technology is designed to increase flying time 'from days to months', along with power available for weapons systems
AI robot: how machine intelligence is evolving
No computer can yet pass the 'Turing test' and be taken as human. But, says Marcus du Sautoy, the hunt for artificial intelligence is moving in a different, exciting direction that involves creativity, language – and even jazz
Susan Cain: ‘Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts’
Bestselling author Susan Cain tells Ian Tucker about on the cultural dominance of extroverts
Synthetic biology: the best hope for mankind’s future?
Johnjoe McFadden: If GM is agriculture's Ford Cortina, synthetic biology could give us Ferrari crops that feed the world without harming the planet
Brian Cox iPad app touts the Wonders of the Universe
HarperCollins pulls in BBC footage to complement text, photos and infographics. By Stuart Dredge:
How to get the most from your 60p first-class stamp – video
London's Science Museum provides some ingenious tips on how to put that pricey first-class stamp to work
Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson – review
This study of cold war academic John von Neumann and his early computer is engrossing and well researched, writes Evgeny Morozov
Daniel Everett: ‘There is no such thing as universal grammar’
The rules of language are not innate but are born of necessity, says Daniel Everett
Study reveals words’ Darwinian struggle for survival
Scientific analysis of language usage in literature over the last 200 years suggests that words are competing – and now losing – in a battle to survive
Am I a man or a machine? Science writing at its best – and worst
An article about artificial intelligence provides an object lesson in how to introduce a complex, potentially baffling subject area
The camera that can see around corners
New technology could lead to devices that can spot people hidden from view or inspect components deep inside machines
David Hockney’s Stephen Hawking portraits draw greats together
Jonathan Jones: Unlike the Chapmans' daft Hawking sculpture, Hockney's acute paper and iPad sketches do justice to two true giants