麻豆传媒

To warm up quickly, should I put on my trousers or top first? part 2

Our readers have found many approaches to answering this question, including one that borrows from a method used to assess burns.

CHEETAH acinonyx jubatus, Adult running through Savannah ; Shutterstock ID 1652757304; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

This week鈥檚 new questions

Comment

This paper should win a prize for its refusal to make any big claims

麻豆传媒 Live NSL

See all the action from this year’s 麻豆传媒 Live

Tom Gauld on science by numbers

Twisteddoodles on research tales of terror

Once Upon a Time in Space book - James Bluemel Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov seen in Mir?s window from Shuttle Discovery STS063-711-080 (6 Feb. 1995) --- Cosmonaut Valeriy V. Polyakov, who boarded Russia's Mir Space Station on January 8, 1994, looks out Mir's window during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery. This is one of 16 still photographs released by the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Public Affairs Office (PAO) on February 14, 1995. Onboard the Discovery were astronauts James D. Wetherbee, mission commander; Eileen M. Collins, pilot; Bernard A. Harris, Jr., payload commander; mission specialists C. Michael Foale, Janice E. Voss, and cosmonaut Vladimir G. Titov. Page 134

Space

See the beauty of space, captured by the astronauts who experienced it

Spoonful of Homemade Berbere Spice Blend Close-up: Side view of East African spice mixture in a spoon with glass jar and mortar and pestle nearby; Shutterstock ID 2546039369; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

Life

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

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?

Asteroi?d impact. The doomsday and extinction scene. Meteor hits the planet at high speed. ; Shutterstock ID 2645714679; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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

We鈥檇 certainly know about it if an asteroid hit Mars or the moon, but just how much Earth would be affected depends on a number of factors

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

This week鈥檚 new questions

Comment

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

Tom Gauld on a puzzling new theory