Quick crossword #50: Cry of Archimedes (6)
30 January 2020
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The new coronavirus is spreading faster than SARS - and it may be because it can be passed on before a person shows any sign of symptoms
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Salt curing preserves salmon while allowing great flavours to develop. Find out the secrets of this age-old technique of preservation and make gravlax at home
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Puzzling, slow-living microbes named after Loki, the trickster of Norse mythology, are helping solve one of evolution's biggest mysteries: the origin of complex life
Avenue 5: Hugh Laurie discovers how space tourism can go badly wrong
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Space tourism has taken off in HBO’s comedy Avenue 5, but the ship is off course, just like the jokes. Can the captain, Hugh Laurie, save the day?
Ironbark: Did two spies really prevent all-out nuclear war?
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Ironbark is one of 2020’s anticipated movies. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the MI6 handler of a Russian spy who may have helped prevent nuclear war
The life of Veronique Le Guen, record-breaking caver
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Veronique Le Guen died in 1990, just two years after she had set a world record for the most time spent alone in an underground cavern
