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Science: Broken symmetry in the genetic code?

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Cinderladdin and the forty beanstalks: Missed the EastEnders Christmas Special? Father-in-Law getting on your nerves? Time to plug into our puzzle pages . . .

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Science: Hairy balls in higher dimensions

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Let T equal tiger . . . The shapes and patterns of living creatures may owe as much to mathematics as they do to biology

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Science: Thousand-page proof vindicates Fermat

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Science: Mathematicians learn how to read the ant-trails

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Review: How to survive in an unreal world

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Science: The mathematics of synchronised mountaineering

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Science and Fiction: Huge and nebulous dystopias

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Science: Finding the energy to solve a knotty problem

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Science: A million ways to wrap a rubber band round a potato

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Science: Testing time for numbers prime

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