Best of 2015

BBC Future’s best reads of the year

Test how nefarious you actually are

The tragic tale of ‘Green Boots’, Mt Everest’s most famous corpse

• Mountain
• Psychology

Your body may be a fusion of two people

• Human body
• Neuroscience

The secret to revealing deception

• Psychology

No one knows why the vast network exists

• Britain
• Engineering

Weighing up the benefits of boozing

• Health
• Human body
• Drugs

The most bizarre way to ride the rails

• Britain
• Transport

Have scientists found the fabled G-spot?

• Sex
• Medicine
• Human body

Secrets of multilingual “hyperglots”

Why the smart can be stupid

• Psychology
• Brain

A dark, hidden lake filled by our tech lust

• Gadget
• Pollution