The ObserverScienceFrom the nature of the universe (that's if there is only one) to the purpose of dreams, there are lots of things we still don't know – but we might do soon. A new book seeks some answers1 What is the universe made of? Astronomers face an embarrassing conundrum: they don’t know what 95% of the universe is made of. Atoms, which form everything we see around us, only account for a measly 5%.

Latex lovers … one of Britain’s most popular kinks. Latex lovers … one of Britain’s most popular kinks. TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewWhether it’s a dungeon in Mansfield or a St Helier man with a sex-doll for a fiancée, this study of the UK’s fetishes won’t keep you chained to the sofa. Plus: The Good Wife The Great British Sex Survey (Channel 4) was, as the astute-to-barely-sentient among you will no doubt have suspected from the first sighting of the title in your schedules, a pile of toss.

Tori AmosInterviewTori Amos: 'Menopause is the hardest teacher I've met. Harder than fame'Charlotte Richardson AndrewsA walk in the Smoky Mountains in the footsteps of her late Cherokee grandfather helped the musician rediscover her muse – and write an album that confronts the US’s rapacious violence A gargantuan truck fills the driveway of Tori Amos’s Cornwall home. The surrounding countryside is tranquil – verdant hills, stone farm buildings, golden crops swaying in the late August sun – but a throng of activity greets us at the home/recording studio Amos shares with her producer husband, Mark Hawley.

OpinionDiets and dieting This article is more than 2 months oldAndrew Tate ‘hates’ eating. What is behind his performative disgust for food?This article is more than 2 months oldZoe WilliamsIn the toxic manosphere, fasting is seen as a mark of strength and self-reliance. I can think of another word for it ‘Food’s awful and eating sucks.” Thus spake Andrew Tate, on X (formerly Twitter). “I hate eating. I hate feeling full,” he elaborated, before broadening, in his trademark fashion, the personal to the universal: “Imagine how stupid you have to be to find food entertaining.

Clenched-jaw aggression … Dinita Gohil as Annette and Freema Agyeman as Veronica. Photograph: The Other RichardClenched-jaw aggression … Dinita Gohil as Annette and Freema Agyeman as Veronica. Photograph: The Other RichardTheatreReviewLyric Hammersmith, London Some of the punches don’t land as hard as they might, but deft direction and slick performances make this a delightfully brutal take down of bourgeois manners Yasmina Reza’s feted satire of two couples locked in passive aggressive combat inside a tasteful French living room smashed the facade of smugly civilised middle-class life when it premiered in 2008.