This week’s new questions
What is an itch, and why are most so easily calmed with a simple touch? And if my family tree doubles at every past ancestor generation, at what point does it decrease to reflect the size of the population?
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Life
Stunning photos reveal the intricate beauty of fungi
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Do you want your underwear with added probiotics?
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Health
Inside Brazil’s vast network of lifesaving free milk banks
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Tom Gauld on classic literature with added mathematics
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If everyone got rid of their mobile phones, what would happen?
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Why do some of us enjoy exercising and others don’t?
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Why do some plants eat insects if they are capable of photosynthesis?
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This week’s new questions
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Hold the onions – and see if they make you cry
Feedback isn't sure what to make of a ground-breaking piece of research into the understudied topic of "subjective individual variability in onion tearing and its relationship to chemosensory sensitivity"
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Twisteddoodles on appropriate leaving gifts for scientific colleagues
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Tom Gauld: ‘My experiment is generating infinite power!’
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Twisteddoodles on the dangers of AI summaries
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Why are there no moons with natural satellites of their own?
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