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New Scientist puzzle #19 The vicar’s age

28 August 2019

Skill with numbers will be needed for this brain teaser about a vicar’s age. Plus, the quick quiz

The New Scientist quick crossword #39

28 August 2019

Try your hand at our science-themed quiz-style crossword, set by Richard Smyth. Plus, answers to cryptic crossword #13

Make a weather station with BBC micro:bits and a sensor

28 August 2019

Get up-to-the-minute weather reports by turning an environmental sensor and two BBC micro:bits into a mini weather station

Are there any aliens out there? We are close to knowing for sure

28 August 2019

Next-generation telescopes and new ways of detecting life on other planets are transforming the search for extraterrestrials. We may finally be about to find out if aliens exist

Refreezing the Arctic: How to bring the ice back with geoengineering

28 August 2019

The Arctic is heating up faster than anywhere else on Earth and the only way to save the ice may be to intervene directly. We look at the three ambitious projects that aim to do just that

This month's top sci-fi reminds us to beware technocrats bearing gifts

28 August 2019

In her latest sci-fi column, Helen Marshall finds simmering revolution against the tech moguls in two new novels, The Warehouse and The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man

Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

28 August 2019

This week, an exhibition about digital technology enriching non-fiction film, the big beast of the sci-art scene and biological crime reconstructions

From driverless cars to AI bridges, are we giving up too much control?

28 August 2019

The cars will be beautiful in a future where AIs are in control and even build instant bridges, but a new exhibition at London's Science Museum asks whose interests set the agenda

How the science of happiness became an industry worth billions

28 August 2019

Fuelled by government and corporate dollars, being happy has become near mandatory. A controversial new book, Manufacturing Happy Citizens, explains the rise of positive psychology