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Life

‘Horrific and beautiful’ whale rescue image wins photography prize

See some of the winning entries for this year's Oceania Photo Contest, including Miesa Grobbelaar's shot of a whale, which took the top prize

Tom Gauld on plans for an exciting new technology

Twisteddoodles: Something in the lab isn’t working…

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Life

Is there any evidence that playing music to plants is beneficial?

Who finds dad jokes funniest? The answer might not astonish you

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What would happen if a spinning disc approached the speed of light?

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Must the evolution of an adapted trait in nature reach a limit? Part 2

2CA4Y7K Comet crashing into earth

How would we spot an antimatter comet in our solar system? Part 2

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This week鈥檚 new questions

Environment

Dramatic images show where water and humanity meet

Taken from the book Lo-TEK Water, these shots explore how traditional ecological knowledge is being used to create a more sustainable future

Twisteddoodles on when facial recognition tech goes wrong

Tom Gauld on the necessity of good supportive evidence

Mathematics

The 19th-century maths that can help you deal with horrible coffee

Must the evolution of any adapted trait in nature reach a limit?