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This week’s new questions

18 May 2022

Why do little children run everywhere and would dinosaurs have ever evolved to become highly intelligent?

What is the weird mussel-like thing found in a mine?

18 May 2022

Readers may have found the answer to the mystery of the odd, rusty bivalve-like form found in a Welsh pit

F3EPBC Birds, Black Chinned Hummingbird sucking nector from Anise Sage flower, Idaho, USA

Do birds ever get out of breath?

18 May 2022

One reader introduces us to her chickens, Bandersnatch and Jabberwocky, who certain do loose they breath

2AD2YRB Pile of pink pills and around a white one. Medication, self-treatment or placebo concept: one tablet is different from the lot of others

What is it that provides the healing effect of a placebo treatment?

18 May 2022

Our readers debate whether the placebo effect - and its evil twin the nocebo - even exist, or bring about powerful changes in our body

Claims that girls have a 'natural' aversion to physics are harmful

18 May 2022

Girls are just as capable as boys in science and mathematics, but ingrained attitudes are stopping female students from engaging, says Maria Rossini

Spanning space and time, Night Sky follows Irene (Sissy Spacek) and Franklin York (J.K. Simmons), a couple who, years ago, discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet.

Night Sky review: Engaging show about a portal to another planet

18 May 2022

Sissy Spacek and J. K. Simmons are the beating heart of this Amazon Prime Video television series about an ageing couple who have a door to another planet in their backyard

Don't Miss: New documentary A Taste of Whale questions Faroes hunt

18 May 2022

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

HEFEI, CHINA - OCTOBER 09: An employee arranges boxes of agricultural chemicals at an intelligent warehouse of Anhui Fengle Agrochemical Co., Ltd on October 9, 2021 in Hefei, Anhui Province of China. (Photo by Ruan Xuefeng/VCG via Getty Images)

Regenesis review: Farming is killing the planet but we can stop it

18 May 2022

George Monbiot's terrifying new book tells us that farming is the most destructive human activity there has ever been. Luckily, it also offers radical solutions

The circadian rhythms are controlled by circadian clocks or biological clock.

Life Time review: Sleep deprivation kills, warns must-read book

18 May 2022

Russell Foster's guide to all we know about the body’s circadian rhythms should be mandatory reading for night-shift workers, but its messages are universal