Tom Gauld on trying to get the story of Rapunzel just right
2 May 2020
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
-
Subject
-
Section
-
Type
-
Topics
-
Author
-
Issue
-
Premium
Twisteddoodles on an unlikely collaboration between people and nature
2 May 2020
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
Cryptic crossword #30: Get air circulating and assess casualties (6)
30 April 2020
Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop
Retro computers reveal three decades of technological evolution
29 April 2020
In a new photography book, the home computer revolution of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s is told through nostalgic industrial-design images
I'm a space archaeologist studying junk strewn across the solar system
29 April 2020
From vintage satellites to lunar rovers, space archaeologist Alice Gorman is teasing out a unique history of humanity from the objects we've dispatched from Earth
This week’s new questions
29 April 2020
How does our subconscious mind come up with ideas while we sleep and what determines how quickly a kettle boils? Send your answers to Almost the Last Word and we'll publish our favourites
How small does an animal have to be to have small fleas?
29 April 2020
How small does an animal or insect have to be before it can't have fleas, mites or lice?
Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?
29 April 2020
How can ancient monoliths that were aligned with the sun at the equinox thousands of years ago still be lined up, given that plate tectonics moves land masses over the years?
Can you walk your pizza-sized tortoise during lockdown?
29 April 2020
Pizza-sized tortoises, plus covid-19 superheroes and pointless apps in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up
New Scientist puzzle #57: Matchstick magic
29 April 2020
A puzzle based on moving matchsticks to create new sums, set by Paulo Ferro. Plus the solution to puzzle #56
