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Up-to-the-minute advice on the benefits of testicle tanning

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


This week’s new questions

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?

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


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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


All the tablets cancer patient Ann-Marie takes in a month. I have been collecting a month of empty packaging, and have taken photos from arrival to making into dossett boxes some 50 tablets a day, making 1500 a month

Radiotherapy masks to hellebore root: see the ways we confront cancer

18 May 2022

Cancer Revolution, a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, explores the advances behind cancer care, from this mask worn by a throat cancer patient for their treatment, to black hellebore root, a remedy used in the 1700s


Tom Gauld on the adventures of Science Knight

Tom Gauld on the adventures of Science Knight

18 May 2022

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon


Twisteddoodles: It's on fire

Twisteddoodles: It's on fire

18 May 2022

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles


Image of the broken fragments surrounding Fragment B of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 observed with FORS1 on ESO's VLT in four filters (B, V, R, and I). As the telescope was tracking the comet, the stars appear as coloured trails, indicating the order in which the comet was observed in the different filters. North is up and East is to the left.

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


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