The “cold blob” appears in a data visualisation showing average temperatures in 2015, relative to the 1951-80 average NASA Scientific Visualization Studio/Goddard Space Flight Center Over the past 150 years, Earth’s entire surface has been warming, except for one patch of the north Atlantic. Located south-east of Greenland, this area has cooled by as much…

Hymn, a Damien Hirst sculpture, reveals layers of our organs Chris Cooper-Smith/Alamy Organ SpeakGiulia Enders(Illustrated by Jill Enders, and translated by Jamie Bulloch), Hachette (UK); HarperCollins (US) Work, home, politics, TV sagas, juicy celebrity gossip – who doesn’t get caught up in the drama of everyday life? But there may be an equally compelling and…