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Milk coffee is a combination of equal parts espresso, steamed milk and milk froth.

Does a latte cool faster than a cappuccino? (part 2)

There is a simple way to settle this friendly argument about the cooling rates of different coffees, and it doesn’t involve complex parameters such as conduction coefficients and latent heat, says one reader

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Scones

This week’s new questions

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Tom Gauld on the department of paradoxical geometry

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Twisteddoodles: New year, new me

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Space

The stargazing spectacles you need to put in your diary for 2023

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How much of my body from 40 years ago remains part of me today?

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B70G62 Suriname, Brownsweg, Brownsberg National Park. Woman looking at Tarantula , Avicularia Metallica.

Do spiders survive if thrown from a height out of a window?

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What happens if I shine a torch, moving at the speed of light? Part 2

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This week’s new questions

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On whether dogs should, or should not, visit hospitals

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

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Life

Dazzling photographs of flocking flamingos

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Tom Gauld sees in the new year

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Twisteddoodles on popular science books

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Humans

Telling the story of Antarctica through 100 objects

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