Satellite image captures a hyperconnected English Channel at work
28 August 2019
Will this satellite image of a crowded, connected, English Channel with busy shipping routes, grids of wind farms and scuttling ferries change in future?
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Your DNA could transfer to a weapon you have never touched
28 August 2019
Forensic scientist Niamh Nic Daeid explains how your DNA could end up on a murder weapon and why smoke alarms don't wake children
This week’s new questions
28 August 2019
Why are blue highlighters less bright, why do we like stories, and a question about a global gathering
Why do dogs and horses roll on their backs when happy?
28 August 2019
Dogs roll for three reasons, horses for one, say readers. But they don't do it because they are happy
How does water hydrate us?
28 August 2019
Readers explain why we get thirsty and how our bodies control water levels with great accuracy
The 'sexy' lichen that puts lead in your pencil, but not in a good way
28 August 2019
New Zealand’s heavy-metal-laced Viagra substitute, plus Bolsonaro’s pooping strategy and strangely intelligent rabbits in Feedback’s weekly weird world round-up
New Scientist puzzle #19 The vicar’s age
28 August 2019
Skill with numbers will be needed for this brain teaser about a vicar’s age. Plus, the quick quiz
The New Scientist quick crossword #39
28 August 2019
Try your hand at our science-themed quiz-style crossword, set by Richard Smyth. Plus, answers to cryptic crossword #13
Make a weather station with BBC micro:bits and a sensor
28 August 2019
Get up-to-the-minute weather reports by turning an environmental sensor and two BBC micro:bits into a mini weather station
