Quick crossword #108: Sugar isolated from wood (6)
19 May 2022
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Up-to-the-minute advice on the benefits of testicle tanning
18 May 2022
Feedback does a deep dive into the pros – or otherwise – of scrotal sunbathing, while also digging into a new method for helping opposing sides in the UK’s 2016 Brexit referendum call a truce
Puzzle #168: Can you help student Rick Sloth minimise his exam prep?
18 May 2022
Can you solve this week’s logic challenge, Bone idle? Plus the answer to puzzle #167
We can't let short-term crises derail efforts to tame climate change
18 May 2022
Amid war, energy shortages and inflation spikes, nations are showing little sign of making good on the their emissions promises. That must change
The urban beekeeping boom is hurting wild pollinator species
18 May 2022
The recent global trend for urban apiary amounts to "bee-washing" that detracts from efforts to reverse the decline in wild pollinators, argues Graham Lawton
How the massive dogs bred to protect livestock could save wolves too
18 May 2022
Livestock guardian dogs traditionally used to protect herd animals from predators are now also being hailed as a way to conserve the animals they are trained to scare off
The female body is misunderstood and this is why, says Rachel E. Gross
18 May 2022
From non-consensual vaginal microbiome transplants to misconceptions about the G-spot, Rachel E. Gross discusses the sexism and biases that have led to our fragmented understanding of the female reproductive system
Watch out for comet SW3, which might cause a meteor shower in late May
18 May 2022
Here's hoping that a meteor shower predicted by astronomers for almost a century will be seen this month, says Abigail Beall
Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning
18 May 2022
A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just discovered a new kind of solar storm that strikes without notice
Plan to feed phone data of NHS mental health patients to AI mothballed
16 May 2022
An AI was designed to predict when people are at risk of having a mental health crisis, based on their health records, but plans to extend the project with mobile phone data seem to have been scrapped
