When Stephen Hawking (played by Eddie Redmayne) first tries out his now-iconic computerized voice, his wife Jane (Felicity Jones) is aghast: “It’s American!” she says. That line draws a laugh, but it also highlights a pivotal draw of The Theory of Everything: That American-accented robotic voice is

Bits of Mars have been caught in the act of floating off into space. The first images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft show hydrogen, carbon and oxygen atoms escaping from the planet. MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, arrived at the Red Planet on September 21 and is designed

A scientist whose project was deemed so hopeless that he had to pursue it in his spare time has won the 2014 Nobel prize in physics for an invention that paved the way for widespread energy-efficient lighting. Shuji Nakamura, 60, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, shares the coveted

British-US scientist John O’Keefe and married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norway have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the brain’s “inner GPS”. The “place cells” and “grid cells” they discovered make it possible for our brains to work out where we are . The

The victim peers across the courtroom, points at a man sitting next to a defense lawyer, and confidently says, "That's him!" Such moments have a powerful sway on jurors who decide the fate of thousands of people every day in criminal cases. But how reliable is eyewitness testimony? A new report