Blog festival: No longer a mere vaudeville routine, hypnosis is being used in labs to cast light on the innermost workings of the brain, writes Vaughan Bell

Blog festival: In the age of the internet, there is no reason why anyone should be fooled by statistics, writes Matt Parker

Blog festival: By studying the other effects that antidepressants have in the brain, we may arrive at more effective ways to treat depression, writes Scicurious

Blog festival: Brother of the famous Robert, Frank Oppenheimer was more than just a physicist. Alice Bell looks at the life of her favourite scientist

Blog festival: What do the public think scientists are like, wonders Jenny Rohn. And what do stereotypes matter anyway?

Blog festival: In the 1920s, forensics was in its infancy, and investigators often found themselves pitted against the police, writes Deborah Blum

Blog festival: Scientists should be keen to get out of the lab and explain their findings to a wider public, writes David Dobbs

Blog festival: A new study suggests criminals can be detected by measuring a brainwave known as P300. Can we really trust it, wonders Mo Costandi

Blog festival: For a large predatory whale, there was no better meal than another whale, writes Brian Switek

Frank Swain: A girl playing noughts and crosses, a Playboy centrefold, Sky satellite dishes, the trill of a modem – all have hidden meanings

Blog festival: The La molecule shows that the deeper you look, the more complicated life becomes, says Stephen Curry

Blog festival: A collaboration between the Beagle Project and Nasa is working to inspire kids to follow in the path of Charles Darwin, writes Karen James

Blog festival: Chillies burn our tongues, make our eyes water and bring us out in a sweat. Jason Goldman looks at a peculiarly human form of masochism

Blog festival: Alice Bell looks at humour in science and finds it can sometimes be a bad thing. But mostly a good thing

Blog festival: Slime moulds may be rather unprepossessing but they can solve some complex problems in some surprising ways, writes Ed Yong