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Piles of old tyres in a garage. Romania

Does car tyre pressure affect speedometer readings? Part 2

Cyclists weigh in on this thorny topic, as our readers continue to ponder the issue

A small silver car driving round the sharp bends of a country road in the Peak District, England. Low sunlight casting shadows on the s shaped curves.

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Comment

Spiders that get eaten after sex are picky about mates. You don’t say

Tom Gauld on dangerous research areas for biologists

Life

Fish rescue wins 麻豆传媒 Editors Award at Earth Photo 2025

Twisteddoodles on education in the age of artificial intelligence

2FMBH8B Milky Way over Ayers Rock in Australia

Space

This is the best time of the year to marvel at the Milky Way

2CCYRY3 Please Do Not Feed The Horses

Do all languages have the equivalent of ‘please’ and ‘thank you’?

CXE9HA ALBERTA, CANADA - Clouds at sunset near Banff.

How would civilisation differ if it were always cloudy? (Part 2)

Exposures of clocks, watches, Time-Pieces of various kinds and periods. Photograph ?? Santosh Verma

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Why are there 60 seconds in a minute? And how does my brain predict if I'll be able to recall something or not?

Comment

The uncanny stork/baby correlation that really is for the birds

Tom Gauld on the life of a scientist

Twisteddoodles on when work takes precedence

Life

Inside Europe’s largest jellyfish farm