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Plastic bottle cloches protecting lettuce and pea shoots

Humans

Protect your plants from cold snaps with home-made cloches

The temperature swings of spring can prove fatal to young plants. A simple home-made device could be the answer, says Clare Wilson

Humans

In the wild, robot vacuum cleaners have no natural predators

Tom Gauld, at home with the unsuspecting hadrons

Twisteddoodles: The inevitable results of acronym overload

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Environment

Lithium fields: Beautiful from the air, trouble on the ground

What鈥檚 the best way to store movies and images for the next 100 years?

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As waves break and dissipate their power, does this warm the water?

This week鈥檚 new questions

2DC4CH7 Closeup of the double cluster of Perseus constellation, with many stars as background in the deep space, taken with my telescope.

Space

How to spot the Double Cluster and the Carina Nebula this week

Humans

The company that wants to fight covid-19 with vibrations

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Tom Gauld shows what happens when body donation goes surreally wrong

Twisteddoodles: The youthful joys of scientific fieldwork

Space

Fascinating objects illuminate the European Space Agency’s history

Birds die around us all the time, so why do I never see a dead one?