This week’s new questions
Does red sky at night really mean the next day’s weather will be fine, and what’s the difference between shampoo and shower gel?
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Humans
The Bhopal disaster 35 years on: Why the full truth remains unknown
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‘I like a challenge’: CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter
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Life
See the exquisite inner world of the gemstone crazy lace agate
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Life
Life and death caught in Petri dishes in a nod to the art of mortality
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Space
See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week
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FACEBOOK: The rebrand that sounds like a troll who left caps lock on
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Nettle effect: Why don’t dogs seem affected by stinging nettles?
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Hourglass figure: Why do wasps have such narrow waists?
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Getting used to it: How do we acclimatise to different temperatures?
If you live in a hot country, the temperatures you consider warm are different to those when you live in a colder place. It could be to do with humidity, some readers suggest
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This week’s new questions
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The adventures of a geologist: From shipwrecks to mapping the Arctic
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Life
Tree of life: Giant baobab turned into living water tank in Madagascar
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Space
The Leonid meteor shower peaks this week: Here’s how to see it
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