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Twisteddoodles: It’s on fire

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

All the tablets cancer patient Ann-Marie takes in a month. I have been collecting a month of empty packaging, and have taken photos from arrival to making into dossett boxes some 50 tablets a day, making 1500 a month

Health

Radiotherapy masks to hellebore root: see the ways we confront cancer

Image of the broken fragments surrounding Fragment B of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 observed with FORS1 on ESO's VLT in four filters (B, V, R, and I). As the telescope was tracking the comet, the stars appear as coloured trails, indicating the order in which the comet was observed in the different filters. North is up and East is to the left.

Space

Watch out for comet SW3, which might cause a meteor shower in late May

2AD2YRB Pile of pink pills and around a white one. Medication, self-treatment or placebo concept: one tablet is different from the lot of others

What is it that provides the healing effect of a placebo treatment?

F3EPBC Birds, Black Chinned Hummingbird sucking nector from Anise Sage flower, Idaho, USA

Do birds ever get out of breath?

What is the weird mussel-like thing found in a mine?

This week鈥檚 new questions

Up-to-the-minute advice on the benefits of testicle tanning

Tom Gauld stared into the abyss, and now they meet for regular chats

Twisteddoodles: I’m you, but from a different dimension

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

Humans

A city of 10 billion: Speculative image paints a vision of the future

If the moon changed to green cheese, what would be the consequences?

How did prehistoric people cut their toenails?

This week鈥檚 new questions