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13 February 2020
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These images showcase the incredible ways mushrooms can be used for everything from boosting well-being to fashioning baroque high heels
Election cyberattacks? It’s incompetence we need to worry about
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Concerns about adversaries hacking democracy abound, but it’s sheer incompetence we should really be worried about, writes Annalee Newitz
Why our understanding of concussion has been completely wrong
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Concussion is often portrayed as "seeing stars", which people quickly recover from. But we are now beginning to understand that the condition is far more serious, says Elizabeth Sandel
The strange world of 6-dimensional eyebrow feathering
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First dates on the moon, plus snack bars made of “only real ingredients” in Feedback’s weekly weird round-up
New Scientist puzzle #46: Pi-thagoras
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Tap your memories of Pythagoras's theorem to solve this circle-in-a-triangle conundrum. Plus answers to puzzle #45
Umami: How to maximise the savoury taste that makes food so satisfying
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Food tastes satisfying thanks to the amino acid glutamate, which stimulates the umami taste. Sam Wong explains how to boost it in your recipes
When a smile is not a smile – what our facial expressions really mean
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Smiling and other facial expressions aren't displays of feelings that transcend cultures but turn out to be full of hidden meaning
The smuggled Mongolian dinosaur fossil that seemed too good to be true
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When a bizarre fossil appeared for sale in Europe, it looked so odd it had to be fake. But a high-tech investigation introduced us to Halzkaraptor escullei – part velociraptor, part penguin
Sixty years ago the world’s largest particle accelerator switched on
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When CERN’s Proton Synchrotron switched on 60 years ago it ushered in a new era for particle physics
