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Tom Gauld's archaeological Venn diagram
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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Twisteddoodles on being a little less food-motivated
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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See Saturn emerge from behind our moon in game of celestial peek-a-boo
On 4 January there was a lunar occultation of Saturn, when the moon blocks our view of the planet
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A first nomination for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism award
Feedback has found a contender for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism gong: the scientific journal Intelligence
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BrainTwister #55: Squares in squares
Can you solve this week’s logic puzzle? Plus our quick quiz and the answer to last week’s problem
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Children are being overlooked in conversations about AI
We need to stop ignoring young people's firsthand experience with artificial intelligence. They are already at the sharp end of its development, says Mhairi Aitken
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Nerve-racking tale of reviving wild cocoa to make amazing chocolate
Could cultivating wild cocoa help us produce great chocolate ethically? A stirring account reveals the problems of trying to transform an industry
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Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble
In Land of Marble, photographer Alessandro Gandolfi explores the past and future of Italy's striking marble quarries
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Giant tracks show how dinosaurs roamed the UK millions of years ago
Fossil footprints uncovered at a quarry were left by huge herbivores and carnivores that walked Earth around 166 million years ago
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Can you use banana peels to fertilise your plants?
Social media is rife with claims that banana skins can have a transformative effect on our houseplants. James Wong unpeels the science behind the trend