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Where does the white colour go when the snow melts? Tim Hope, Norheimsund, Norway Tim Waterfield, Montreal, Canada David Alexander, Amherst, Mass. USA Robert P van Driel, Antwerp, Belgium Dan Norcott, Loughborough

The political and media classes of Iran are reportedly up in arms about this fantastically silly retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC, co-produced by Frank Miller, author of the pulpy shocker Sin City, and also the graphic novel on which this movie is based. With the kind of tremulous fervour that only prepubescent

When my doctor said the operation could help a medical condition, it led me to wonder about the history of this ancient procedure The day before I had the chop, I visited the National Gallery in London to study a painting of the baby Jesus. Without wishing to get too CSI: Bethlehem about this, there

Probably not, but we can't be certain. "Ultrasound is a [source of] energy. At the extreme it will cause problems," says David Liu, head of the foetal care unit at the City Hospital in Nottingham. "At the low extreme it doesn't cause anything at all. It's just like talking. The [ultrasound units] designed for scanning

The Real Life authors stories smudge the margins between queer and straight, interior lives and the exterior world American author Brandon Taylor follows his Booker-shortlisted debut novel, Real Life, with an impressive collection of linked short stories, Filthy Animals. His characters, like the postgraduate student Wallace at the centre of Real Life, preserve their composure