This week鈥檚 new questions
How would prehistoric people have cut their toenails? Emiel de Lange, Berkel-Enschot, The Netherlands
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Space
A planet-spotting extravaganza is coming, if you are an early riser
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Humans
Academics discover we find boring people boring and don鈥檛 like them
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Tom Gauld documents Godot’s ongoing failure to show up
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Twisteddoodles: the self-cancelling problem of ‘anxiety power’
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Life
Beautiful new photos of flamingos thriving in Mexico’s wetlands
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Why does sticking my tongue out seem to help me concentrate?
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Why does a candle make more smoke just after it has been put out?
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What is this shell-like structure (pictured) found in a disused mine?
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Why can鈥檛 I judge bathwater’s temperature with my left hand? (cont)
The difference in sensitivity to temperature of different hands could be down to the same reason that hot steel feels hotter than hot charcoal at the same temperature
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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Humans
How to perform the culinary technique of spherification at home
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Humans
Radioactive gummy bears, renewable trams and moon geese
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Tom Gauld on the impossibility of keeping up with physics
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