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Twisteddoodles on how a science project might gain media attention

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

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Engineer Jason Lyon poses as he views Loo Garden, a temporary subterranean garden designed to represent a future healthier River Thames, in a section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel - commonly known as the 'Super Sewer' - a 25 kilometre tunnel being built across London under and along the River Thames to deal with combined sewer overflows currently polluting the river, in London, Britain, June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC22T1ANLLXT

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See the garden blooming in a ‘super sewer’ deep below London

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Mathematics

The stunningly simple rule that will always get you out of a maze

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HCNBCF THOR: THE DARK WORLD, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, 2013. ph: Jay Maidment/?Walt Disney Studios/courtesy Everett Collection

Could you make a machine that 鈥渇lew鈥� like Thor鈥檚 hammer in the comics?

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This mosaic of Mars is a compilation of images captured by the Viking Orbiter 1. The center of the scene shows the entire Valles Marineris canyon system, more than 2,000 miles (3,000 kilometers) long, 370 miles (600 kilometers) wide and 5 miles (8 kilometers) deep, extending from Noctis Labyrinthus, the arcuate system of graben to the west, to the chaotic terrain to the east.

If humans colonised Mars, how would they calculate time? (Part 2)

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HDTNNH Crab-eating macaca in Thailand ; specie Macaca fascicularis family of Cercopithecidae

This week鈥檚 new questions

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Could a cat nose function as a ‘highly efficient’ gas chromatograph?

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Tom Gauld on a physicist’s summer holiday

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Twisteddoodles gives Earth a makeover

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Solar Flare X1 from AR2994 in ?Motion? ? Miguel Claro Photograph of the Sun taken from a 27-minute timelapse of a solar, flare which took place on 30 April 2022. Taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit ED120 telescope, Daystar Quark Chromosphere filter, Sky-Watcher EQ6 mount, Player One Apollo M-Max Solar camera, 840 mm, 900 frames at 9.1 ms per frame (recorded as video at 109 FPS) Location: Dark Sky Alqueva region, ?vora district, Portugal

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See the remarkable photos up for Astronomy Photographer of the Year

From a solar flare to the Jellyfish Nebula, these are some of the photographs in the running for the annual competition organised by the Royal Observatory in London, UK

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Space

How to spot Jupiter’s icy moons

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If a cyclist and runner exercise together, who expends more energy?

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Why do I need to be able to pronounce a word to recall it?

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Is there a correct way to fill a dishwasher? (continued)

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