Tom Gauld on the shrinking size of powerful computers
30 December 2020
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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The best sci-fi films and science documentaries to watch in 2021
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Films Top Gun: Maverick, Dune and Babylon, as well as TV documentaries about Greta Thunberg and Stephen Hawking are all due to be released in 2021
10 of the best sci-fi books that you should read in 2021
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Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor, The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky and The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers are exciting sci-fi books we're looking forward to in 2021
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Solve this week’s fiendish puzzle, Fastest fingers first. Plus the answer to puzzle #89
Everything we know about the universe – and a few things we don't
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How big is the universe? What shape is it? How fast is it expanding? And when will it end? We answer these questions and more in our essential guide to the current state of cosmological knowledge
As the pandemic fades, the climate crisis must take centre stage again
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We're all hoping 2021 will see the end of the pandemic. How we reboot the world after covid-19 will help shape our fate as an even bigger emergency looms – dangerous climate change
Mathematicians finally discover when your elevator will arrive
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The maths of waiting for an elevator, plus the strange plan to melt the Arctic in Feedback’s weekly weird round-up
This week’s new questions
30 December 2020
Why do wet dogs like to shake themselves dry beside people? And what propels the constant movement of particles?
Do we perceive colours around us differently to others?
30 December 2020
Some see the shoe (pictured) as grey and green, but others perceive it to be pink and white. Is this due to differences in our brains, and if so, do we each perceive different versions of the colours that surround us?
