Put your hands together to bring a dead phone back to life
22 November 2017
Elegant gloves convert wild applause into battery power, but you’ll need a clap like thunder or you won’t have the juice to call a cab after that poetry slam
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Easy on the eye
22 November 2017
The remedy for cataracts involves surgery, which carries a risk of blindness. Will it be possible to devise a non-surgical cure?
First name basis
22 November 2017
My wife and I often mix up the names of our children and our grandchildren, calling our grandson by his father's name and so on. Sometimes we even switch the names of the grandchildren with those of our cats! But we never seem to mix up the sexes. Why...
Fuzzy thinking
22 November 2017
What is the function of the fuzz on the skin of a peach? And is a nectarine a bald peach or a peach a fuzzy nectarine?
Mental block
22 November 2017
My elderly uncle is in hospital with a urine infection. His capacity for normal behaviour and thought is greatly reduced and I'm told the same happens when other older people have the same kind of infection. Why is this? If I (a 43-year-old) picked up...
Feedback: Trump enlists a confederacy of dunces to run the EPA
22 November 2017
Kathleen Hartnett White is the latest nominee to struggle with science. Plus: Rick Perry's strange solution to sex crime, a gossipy gadget, and more
Giant climate camera will watch how our planet changes
22 November 2017
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite will take pictures of Earth to measure the temperatures of the sea and atmosphere and to watch how ice and water move
