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Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures

9 May 2018

A polar bear loose in the streets of a famous seaside town sets the stage for an art show to ask tough questions

Gallery of terrifying gynaecological tools from past 200 years

9 May 2018

These don't look like the kinds of things you might want inserted in your body – but these instruments have been gynaecological staples for hundreds of years

China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

9 May 2018

Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment

Ski Slope Catwalk

9 May 2018

During the Winter Olympics, TV commentators said it is advantageous for ski jumpers to be light because they will travel further. But being light is seen as a disadvantage for slopestyle snowboarders. What's the difference? And what effect do the...

Spiralling backwards

9 May 2018

If there's no friction in space, why do the arms of spiral galaxies sweep backwards?

The art of timing

9 May 2018

Why are the dates when we switch between summer and winter times (for example, swapping between Greenwich Mean Time and British Summer Time in the UK) placed so asymmetrically around the solstices?

Feedback: Uranus smells like farts, say astronomers

9 May 2018

But how do you sniff a planet 3 billion km away? Also: women overestimate how often men make a move, sonic blast destoys stock exchange, and more

Crossword #18

9 May 2018

Compiled by Richard Smyth

Deluded drivers: The startling discovery that changed psychology

9 May 2018

A 1960s survey of drivers hospitalised after accidents found that they still rated their skills as exceptional – and we all have similar blind spots

Treeconomics: How to put a fair price tag on urban forests

9 May 2018

We can now calculate the exact value of a tree, from shade to beauty. Doing so could be the best way to protect them – and plan the forests of the future