Forget about blame with miscarriage: its function is entirely natural
5 August 2020
Many women blame themselves after pregnancy loss and some societies point the finger too, but fertility medicine is busting such miscarriage myths
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Puzzle #71: Can you draw a line through all of the white squares?
5 August 2020
Can you solve this week’s fiendish puzzle White lines? Plus the answer to puzzle #70
Lisa Piccirillo: How I cracked a 50-year-old maths problem in a week
5 August 2020
Solving the Conway knot problem took mathematician Lisa Piccirillo on a journey into the fourth dimension. Here's how she did it
The real reasons miscarriage exists – and why it's so misunderstood
5 August 2020
New research reveals that miscarriage serves a critical role in human evolution – and in some instances, may even be associated with optimal fertility
Nutrition memes forget that there is no such thing as a 'healthy food'
5 August 2020
Shareable online graphics give easy to understand breakdowns of the nutritional content of food, but they may be misleading, says James Wong
What Hiroshima teaches us about coronavirus and the future of humanity
5 August 2020
The nuclear bomb told us we are the greatest threat to our own survival – and the covid-19 pandemic shows the lessons still to learn, say Anders Sandberg and Thomas Moynihan
Tom Gauld on what it's like to work in a building designed by Escher
5 August 2020
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Twisteddoodles takes a jaunt in a time machine
5 August 2020
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began
5 August 2020
It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang
Coronavirus: US has no cohesive plan to tackle massive second wave
4 August 2020
The US is battling a massive second wave of coronavirus cases and has no cohesive national strategy to stop the spread
