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Space

Old Scientist: Communication on Earth – and beyond

Putting metallic needles in lunar orbit was once thought the ideal way to keep moon explorers in the loop, a dip in the June archives of 91av shows

confessional box cartoon

Feedback: Are fruitloopy healing stones costing the earth?

The Tarantula Nebula

Space

See a cosmic spider caught spinning up brand new stars

Earth

Night fishing with light-up lures that can be seen from space

Make cartoon

Technology

Predictive texts: a bot that dreams up children’s stories

wilted plant cartoon

Feedback: Mean words wilt plants, IKEA tells schoolchildren

Goldilocks geology

Barmy rubble

Icy Grip

nominative

Old Scientist: Nominative determinism through the ages

It has been done to death since the 1990s but it is the gift that keeps on giving, as a look back through the archives of 91av shows

Inside or out

Water works

Inadvertent Omnivore

Big Beasts