Volcanic shutdown may have led to 'snowball Earth'
Early in our planet's history, volcanoes stopped spewing out lava for around 250 million years, leaving Earth in almost perpetual winter Brazil's other big forest in dire straits
Often obscured by the glare of publicity that surrounds the Amazon rainforest, the Atlantic forest is a biodiversity hotspot – and it's in very bad shape Medieval-style 'rack' stretches skin grafts
Slivers of skin have been stretched to twice their size in a week using a robotic device that is akin to an ancient instrument of torture
Solar cycle will be weakest since 1928, forecasters say
The sun's new solar cycle will be the mildest in decades, a panel of experts predicts – but the panel's vote was not unanimous Innovation: Computers to keep our emotions in check
We're used to software spotting mistakes in our spelling and grammar – but soon word processors may be advising us on our writing's emotional content too
Warm weather may not halt swine flu
If the spread of H1N1 influenza continues elsewhere as it has in the Americas, the virus could infect more than a billion people by July
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