This week’s new questions
Why is it that the same foods or drinks taste pleasant to some people and horrible to others?
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Physics
Physicist Kate Shaw on Higgs bosons and how reality is an illusion
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Technology
Becoming a maker: How switches can bring you piping hot toast
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Physics
From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einstein鈥檚 relativity
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Health
Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test
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Health
How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite
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Life
How squirrels use their tails to square up to deadly cobras
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Feedback: Why Spiderman could be the best cure for arachnophobia
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Space
Why ‘Martian’ Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet
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Space reflectors
Does the space junk orbiting Earth have any effect on the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of our planet, either by absorbing or reflecting it?
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Technology
How to make a reading light and learn about circuits
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Liana Finck cartoon
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Technology
Want to build robots and invent stuff? Here’s where to start
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Feedback: Advertisers set their sights on the night sky
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