Science Questions and Answers

Feedback is delighted by a deep dive into why people sometimes wear "artificially elongated fingernails". But does it do more than just scratch the surface?

If the sun suddenly disappeared, how long would life on Earth last, from humans and plants to subterranean bacteria? And why do humans so readily adopt fiction into our lives, and feel emotion about characters as though they were someone close to us in real life?

An Australian reader with an abundance of flies in their locality tries to answer a question that has intrigued many of our readers

One correspondent with a particularly intelligent dog begs to differ with this question, while another looks to deepen the mystery

From tides to eclipses, the slow departure of our moon will affect life on Earth, say our correspondents