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Tom Gauld reveals science’s most inefficient winter warmer

3 November 2021

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Twisteddoodles: The perilous position of pensive people’s pens

3 November 2021

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

Whirlwind romance: What a tornado can do for your relationship

3 November 2021

Natural disasters boost couples’ satisfaction, plus growing concrete and the microbes having sex in your Stilton, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up

J6125R 3D illustration. Stylized image of a brain inside a liquid with air bubbles around.

This week’s new questions

3 November 2021

If every atom in my brain was replaced by identical ones, am I mentally still me? And what is the universe expanding into?

CX0F9Y M74, Phantom Galaxy Spiral Galaxy type NASA Hubble photograph

Where do galaxies begin and end?

3 November 2021

Finding the edge of a galaxy isn’t a simple matter - and depends on mysterious dark matter

We found this object a couple of weeks ago in the surf on Kilvickeon Beach on the south end of the Isle of Mull in Scotland. It was originally dark and got lighter as it dried out. It has a bit of an odd smell! Both sides which look very different. Taken a few days apart, tic-tac box for scale!

What is this strange object found on a Scottish beach?

3 November 2021

According to New Scientist readers, this “beach blob” could have come from whale, a tropical plant or the rear end of a horse

Son of Monarchs review: A beautiful film about a young scientist

3 November 2021

Son of Monarchs is a hopeful film that explores themes of inspiration and belonging through the eyes of a brilliant young scientist with a tragic backstory, says Simon Ings

This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula.

Don't miss: Online talk about Pluto's methane caps and cryovolcanoes

3 November 2021

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

Signs along River road on the Delta waters of the Sacramento River, Calif., as seen on Wednesday July 30, 2014., near Rio Vista, Calif. The Bay Institute, a well-regarded environmental group, has determined the the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to construct tunnels to send water south would cause two salmon species to die out and would

River's End review: Inside the battle for California's water

3 November 2021

When water is scarce, who decides how to divide up what's left? Documentary River's End shows that the winners and losers are all too predictable

Anti-Monsanto/GMO Protest, New York, 25 May 2013 - Hundreds of thousands across the US joined the worldwide rally against biotech giant Monsanto and genetically engineered crops. It comes shortly after the Senate turned down a bill that would allow states to require the labeling of GM foods. Photo: Tony Savino (Photo by Tony Savino/Corbis via Getty Images)

Life As We Made It review: Should we go all in on gene-editing tech?

3 November 2021

Beth Shapiro's latest book explores how humans have affected the planet so far and what we might do to the animals and plants living on it in the future