Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity
4 July 2018
A fundamental rule of general relativity has passed its most extreme test yet, courtesy of the movements of three distant stars
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Boys and football coach in Thai cave are medically stable
4 July 2018
Twelve boys and their football coach were found in a partially flooded cave in northern Thailand on Monday after being missing for nine days
NHS England considers plans to cut some surgeries
4 July 2018
Breast reductions and tonsil removals are among 17 procedures that may be restricted in England in a bid to save the National Health Service £200 million a year
Heatwaves show global warming is not just a future threat
4 July 2018
Better climate models and fast computers are helping us see how our carbon emissions are already causing severe weather events
Feedback: Airflow test shows the force is not with X Wing pilots
4 July 2018
Size matters not - unless you're talking about drag coefficients. Plus: space is filled with grease, Chinese whispers silenced by censors, and more
It's ok that the public rejected GM food – after all, we did ask
4 July 2018
Many people see the public's rejection of genetically-modified food as a failure, but I would argue it was successful public engagement, says Lesley Paterson
The second great battle for the future of our food is underway
4 July 2018
First it was GM food. Now battle lines are being drawn over whether crops and animals modified with CRISPR gene-editing can make it on to supermarket shelves
Wine Breathing
4 July 2018
Sometimes I open a room-temperature bottle of red wine and put in a valved spout. On opening the valve the next day, at the same temperature, the noise I hear suggests that the air in the bottle was at a lower pressure than that outside. Why would this...
First name basis
4 July 2018
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...
Thorny problem
4 July 2018
I am puzzled by brambles, raspberries and blackberries. They have sweet, juicy fruit, presumably so they will be eaten by animals who will spread their seeds. But they also have prickles. What's the good of that?
