I’ve learnt a new word. A wreck of puffins, if you didn’t know, is when huge numbers of dead birds are washed onto our shores, usually during huge storms. That is happening right now across Europe, and it’s incredibly sad to see photos of these bird carcasses lined up on beaches. The birds died of starvation, unable to catch enough to food to survive in the unrelenting bad weather.

As Ruth Lister, a marine ecologist from Lancaster University, warns, there are likely to be more extreme winter storms in the years ahead as the climate changes. And so seabirds are probably going to face enormous threats to their survival.

Finding out a friend or family member has dementia is intensely difficult and hopefully research in this area will continue to make breakthroughs. This case of a 68-year-old man, who developed an unusual love for Spitfire engine noises, has helped researchers find evidence for what they think is a fourth type of frontotemporal dementia.

And for decades, a controversial belief that autistic people are unable to grasp what others think or feel has shaped research in the field. Travis LaCroix from Durham University explains why this belief does not stand up to scrutiny.