For the record

4 May 2021

Cryptic crossword #50: Bolder jerk upset over rise in disorder (7)

4 February 2021

Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop

Tom Gauld reworks his primate feeding study due to covid restrictions

3 February 2021

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Twisteddoodles on the weirdness of cats

3 February 2021

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

UK virus variant may not need to spread to go global

3 February 2021

We must rethink delay in second shot for health staff

3 February 2021

A hydrogen fuel revolution is coming – here's why we might not want it

3 February 2021

Hydrogen is widely touted as a green fuel for everything from cars and planes to heating homes. But all too often it has a dirty secret

How to be an expert: What does it really take to master your trade?

3 February 2021

We are relying on specialist knowledge to guide us through the coronavirus pandemic – so it is more important than ever to grasp what expertise is and where it comes from, says Roger Kneebone, author of a new book on the subject

Why the universe can be described by the equations of fluids

3 February 2021

Studying the universe and the flow of fluids may seem worlds apart, but they involve some of the same equations, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

We have finally discovered how wombats make cube-shaped poos

3 February 2021

Scientists discover how wombats make cube-shaped faeces, plus the strange case of two silly pigeons and when Flash stopped the trains, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up