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William Simmonds’ “The Black Mare” depicts a stylised horse turning to nip a fly on its near-side fetlock.

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Nit-picking literature — Little things bother some people. Elizabeth Kowaleski…

Pregnant mother Charlene Cromwell says she discovered the news while standing at the boarding door.

“I said I’d do it for two years, and that was 51 years ago,” the 71-year-old said.

In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface. Now the Indian Space Research Organisation has returned in triumph, with the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully touching down near the south pole of Earth’s rocky neighbour. India’s success came just days after a spectacular Russian failure, when the Luna 25 mission tried to land nearby and “ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface”.