Feedback: Humming this Spanish pop song might save a life
13 June 2018
Dance moves not needed. Plus: the case for ecstasy fuelled diplomacy, how politics is killing Thanksgiving, the door mistaken for a penis bone, and more...
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Get food on the go with this roaming robot table
13 June 2018
Make sure nobody goes hungry during your next Netflix binge with a snack-laden room rover
Unseemly Seams
13 June 2018
When I buy a new cotton vest or T-shirt, the side seams are always straight and parallel. After a few washes, one piece of material seems to move relative to the other, and the seams are never again parallel. Why is this?
Fobbed Off
13 June 2018
When I use the electronic key fob to lock or unlock my car, no other car parked nearby has its locks activated. This is as it should be, but how does the system work?
Light at the limit
13 June 2018
People have been measuring the speed of light for a few hundred years, but the universe is nearly 14 billion years old. If the speed of light changes very slowly – say a small percentage every 10,000 years – how could we tell?
Changing our minds about psychedelics takes a great guide
13 June 2018
A book on learning to open our minds to psychedelics as they find a new, more scientific place in our society makes for a fantastic personal story
How Charles Dickens became a man of science
13 June 2018
We think we know Charles Dickens, but his writings on chemistry and energy at a new London exhibition cast him in a very different light
Westworld: a complex tale of robot awakening has us riveted
13 June 2018
As TV hit Westworld's robots come to some awkward conclusions about their true nature in time for the season finale, we're still hooked by the show's sheer smartness
The truth about spices: Is it time to ditch the turmeric latte?
13 June 2018
Spices are causing a stir as cheap and easy cure-alls for everything from diabetes to dementia, but not all the claims live up to the hype
We have hints of a theory beyond quantum physics
13 June 2018
If you think our best theory of reality is weird you ain't seen nothing yet, says physicist Ciarán Lee – it could be a fuzzy version of something bigger
