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Fancy publishing ‘nonsense’ and sabotaging your fellow scientists?

Feedback explores the upsides (and downsides) of Publish or Perish, a game that simulates the experience of building a career in scientific research

Tom Gauld’s archaeological Venn diagram

Twisteddoodles on being a little less food-motivated

The town of Colonnata (Italy), which lies beneath marble quarries in the Apuan Alps. Colonnata is famous for the lard produced there, and for being inhabited by marble quarrymen.

Earth

Incredible images tell the tale of the world鈥檚 most prized marble

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Life

Can you use banana peels to fertilise your plants?

2B74MKJ 3D Illustration Rendering. Flat earth theory with atmosphere, sun, moon and glass cover. Ancient mythology belief in plane globe in form of disk.

If Earth was flat, how would gravity manifest?

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Why are so many Scottish animals red-headed, from squirrels to people?

H3NTB2 Woman by giant trees in snow-covered forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA

This week鈥檚 new questions

Comment

A first nomination for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism award

Tom Gauld on the best look for space

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Twisteddoodles on unusual scientific acronyms

Health

Visualising a virus: How our covers captured an unfolding crisis

Mathematics

This mathematical trick lets you work out the weekday of any date

If we ever find life on other worlds, will it be based on DNA?