Feedback: This gadget promises air from your own private tree
18 October 2017
But something smells fishy about the pine scented vape stick. Plus: How one MP made Manchester's air pollution disappear, time travelling trains, and more
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Going for gold
18 October 2017
Given that athletics races can be won or lost by a margin as small as a hundredth of a second, do athletes risk a gold medal by wearing gold chains?
Hair shadows
18 October 2017
During the recent total solar eclipse in the US, I overlapped my hands, using the gaps between my fingers to form "pinholes". Just before the start of totality, someone noticed that the shadows formed through this "pinhole camera" onto a white board...
Silver surfers
18 October 2017
Recently, my wife's silver car became covered by a swarm of flying ants. This was odd because none of the other cars parked nearby had any on at all. A friend mentioned it had happened to his silver car too and after searching online it seems it's a...
Touch of frost
18 October 2017
If I park my car overnight on an open driveway in cold weather, I have to scrape frost from all of its windows in the morning. But if I park it under the adjacent carport, which is open on all sides but has a roof, no frost forms. Why does a roof make...
Broken faces of the Great War
18 October 2017
Men who became guinea pigs for cosmetic surgery are to be recognised with a memorial in the UK
Butchery of a black rhino wins Wildlife Photographer award
17 October 2017
The winner of 2017’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards captures the plight of rhinos, more than 1000 of which are slaughtered yearly for their horn.
