Quick crossword #48: Inability to feel pleasure (9)
2 January 2020
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The global failure to push PrEP is hindering the fight against HIV
1 January 2020
The UN set a target of 3 million people on the HIV prevention drug PrEP by 2020 – but lingering prejudice and sheer ignorance of its existence mean we're nowhere near
Jill Tarter: The hunt for alien life is only just beginning
1 January 2020
We may not have found alien life yet, but new methods and the discovery of exoplanets and extreme life on Earth is revolutionising the hunt, says the doyenne of SETI research
Banana split: Artwork provokes fresh conflict between art and science
1 January 2020
The world goes bananas over a fruit-themed installation, plus lottery luck from Taylor Swift and cowboy pigeons in Feedback’s weekly roundup of weird news and nonsense
New Scientist puzzle #40: Light bulb moment
1 January 2020
Four electrical wires have become tangled in a pipe. Can you work out which is which? Plus, the quick quiz
The scientific shortcuts to cooking delicious caramelised onions
1 January 2020
Browning onions takes way longer than recipes say. Here are two tricks to cut down the time, says Sam Wong in the first of a new series on the science of cooking
Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel - if we can make it
1 January 2020
The universe’s most common element could also be its most wondrous. Two different groups of researchers say they've made it - but can either claim withstand scrutiny?
For the love of dog: How our canine companions evolved for affection
1 January 2020
It's not just the food, your dog really does love you - and researcher Clive Wynne has done the studies to prove it
Did an asteroid impact 65 million years ago really kill the dinosaurs?
1 January 2020
The idea that a falling asteroid caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs surfaced 40 years ago. At the time, our reaction was rather sceptical
Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name?
1 January 2020
There is no law of physics dictating that dark matter and dark energy can’t be connected, and it is natural to wonder about it, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
