Why didn’t babies evolve to allow parents to get more sleep?
Why do babies keep their parents awake at all hours? Readers giver their answers on behalf of exhausted parents everywhere
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Is our sense of new smells keener? What’s the evolutionary benefit of this?
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This week’s new questions
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Tom Gauld’s beautifully simple, but completely useless theory
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Twisteddoodles explains why baking is like science
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Environment
Flamingos fly over the alien-like landscape of Kenya鈥檚 Lake Magadi
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The strange case of a jam-cream quantum superposition
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What’s the difference between an electric and a magnetic field?
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How much cloud cover is there? Readers give their answers
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This week鈥檚 new questions
Can there be certain genes that are associated with a dislike of certain tastes? And how wide can a tree grow? Send us your answers and we will publish our favourites
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Tom Gauld on the benefits of wearing a lab coat
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Twisteddoodles creates the Journal of Fairytale Research
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Can artificial intelligence solve our fiendish cryptic crossword?
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Can you make your own homebrew decaffeinated tea?
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