Microbes Use 'Hearts' Card Game Trick to Freeload

Whether you are trying to improve your hand in a card game or improve your chances of surviving in a microbial soup, sometimes it pays to get rid of something.

How Neuroscientists and Magicians Are Conjuring Brain Insights

“I see you have a watch with a buckle.” Standing at my side, Apollo Robbins held my wrist lightly as he turned my hand over and back. I knew exactly what was coming but I fell for it anyway. “Yes,” I said, trying to keep an eye on him, “that looks pretty easy for you [...]

Exclusive First Read: 'Gone Girl' By Gillian Flynn

Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book's opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — and spouses.

What a crazy season! The mad moments that made 2011/12 the best ever

It has been a season of unrivalled drama on and off the pitch, not least in the Premier League, but also on the international stage as well.

Barclays Premier League: Norwich City 0, Liverpool 3

Striker Luis Suarez scored a hat-trick at rainswept Carrow Road to condemn Norwich City to their third successive Premier League defeat.