Feedback: Are new straw laws just grasping at straws?
5 June 2019
How to circumvent a plastic straw ban, mulching your loved ones and the man who can rearrange atoms: our weekly round-up from the weirder side of science
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Experimental sci-fi expertly captures colliding realities
5 June 2019
When reality fractures, it takes the adventurous writing style of the novel XYZT to make it believable, says Helen Marshall in her latest column
Don’t miss: Renaissance investigations, social insights and space cops
5 June 2019
Explore Leonardo’s love of movement, learn the latest about social inequality and take a wild ride with the universe’s best law enforcement
Want to stop climate change? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy
5 June 2019
In his new book Upheaval, polymath Jared Diamond says nations need a special kind of therapy to solve big problems like climate change, Brexit and nuclear proliferation
Genetic testing companies should not trade science for marketing
5 June 2019
Promising consumers genetically tailored holidays or music playlists misleads about what DNA tests can do, and often hides the motive of collecting lucrative data
Working hypothesis: From Pokémon Sleep to David Camerson
5 June 2019
Our regular column sorting the week's supernovae from the absolute zeros
Fracking with CO2 unlikely to be green
5 June 2019
A Chinese research team has drilled and fracked five oil wells with carbon dioxide, rather than water
Expert maker Zoe Laughlin talks back-garden Olympics and Dolly Parton
5 June 2019
When she's not organising homemade Olympics, materials engineer Zoe Laughlin can be found in her dream workshop at the Institute of Making
Puzzle #06 Darts challenge
5 June 2019
What’s the lowest score you can’t get with three darts, set by Zoe Mensch. Plus, test your knowledge with our quick quiz
Cryptic crossword #08
5 June 2019
Test your skills with our science-themed cryptic crossword, set by Wingding. Plus, answers for quick crossword #32
