Feedback: Can plants have fun? This experiment aims to find out
29 August 2018
A giant slide in Florence is giving beans a taste of excitement. Plus: sniffer dogs sacked, fake gnus, black hole swallows man, and more
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China's spectacular rainbow lake disguises trouble below the surface
29 August 2018
The colourful algal blooms of Yuncheng Salt Lake are made up of the most salt-tolerant complex cells known – but as they spread they throttle life beneath
The art of timing
29 August 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?
Push me, pull you
29 August 2018
Does it require more or less effort to push a loaded wheelbarrow over hard level ground than to turn around and pull it? What about when the ground is soft?
A trip into the past: Swiss watches, Korean ginseng and UK tea breaks
29 August 2018
Old Scientist digs into the September archives and uncovers fears over digital wristwatches, a potent Korean stimulant and a British ban on New Scientist
