Search | New Scientist

For the record

4 May 2021

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

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

This week’s new questions

3 February 2021

Is there any harm in drinking too much tea? And when I can’t remember something but know that the memory is in my head, how do I know that I knew it?

When walking, does a person who takes more steps get more exercise?

3 February 2021

One reader, out walking with his wife, takes five paces for every six of hers. Does this mean she is getting more exercise than him?

Why do some people struggle to tell left from right (continued)?

3 February 2021

New Scientist readers provide further insight into this surprisingly common problem, including a solution from the Guugu Yimithirr people of Australia and another using hay and straw to help soldiers march in step