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Can chilli powder really stop animals from digging up your garden?

Chilli powder is touted as a cheap, easy, safe option to protect your garden from foxes and squirrels. James Wong casts a scientific eye on this popular remedy

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The Garden spider is the UK's most common orb web spider and is abundant in gardens, grassland and woodland "u2013 it can be found almost everywhere, in fact. It builds a 'typical' spider web (spirals with radial threads) out of sticky silk.

If I walk through a聽spider鈥檚 web, what are its chances of survival?

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Could a massive asteroid that hit Mars or the moon affect Earth?

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2XHMJ3E Mixed breed dog running through grass with large stick in mouth

Why do dogs bring back a stick if you throw it? Part 2

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Is it really likely that humans will go extinct in exactly 314 years?

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Tom Gauld on a puzzling new theory

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Hui Yu photographed this imposing portrait of a tropical flat-faced longhorn beetle on a family photography trip to a tropical rainforest at Gunung Jerai in Malaysia. A light bulb in a mosquito net attracted local invertebrates during the night, and in the morning there were lots of them to look at. Hui Yu is keen on macro-photography and chose the most colourful animal to take a portrait of. 'It had a strange look, like an alien, but it wasn't angry. It sat still on the branch all the time,' she says. 'I want people to know that all creatures, even small ones, count. So don't destroy the forest.'

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Stunning images highlight fight to save Earth鈥檚 rich biodiversity聽

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Twisteddoodles on a magazine for tadpoles

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Mathematics

Learning to play nice with other people

How did cooperation emerge in a cut-throat world? There are clues in the prisoner's dilemma experiment, says Peter Rowlett

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What would the surface of a neutron star look like?

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Why do dogs bring back a stick if you throw it?

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Why do we speak to babies and pets in cute, silly voices? Part 2

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