Cryptic crossword #38: Tuber contains no calcium (3)
20 August 2020
Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop
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It is time to do away with outlandish claims and make science duller
19 August 2020
Hyped up claims and problems replicating research mean the values that make science so successful are being ignored. Science owes it to itself and the world to reform
Puzzle 73: Does Private Perkins end up facing the right way on parade?
19 August 2020
Can you solve this week's fiendish puzzle, Changing guard? Plus the answer to puzzle #72, A long lane
Stuart Ritchie interview: A deep rot is turning science into fiction
19 August 2020
The systems of science are perpetuating bias, hype, negligence and fraud – and this means far too many findings are worthless, says psychologist Stuart Ritchie
Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame
19 August 2020
We are finally solving the mystery of why motion can make us queasy – just in time to help us deal with nausea-inducing VR headsets, driverless cars and space tourism
We should rewild the sky to restore the atmosphere to its former glory
19 August 2020
Let's take inspiration from the way we intervene to help degraded ecosystems recover and attempt to restore the atmosphere back to full health, writes Graham Lawton
Tom Gauld's collection of weird warning signs
19 August 2020
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Twisteddoodles on a maze that could fool rats and humans alike
19 August 2020
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
Has herd immunity really been achieved in some places?
19 August 2020
Despite the claims that some places including pockets of London and New York have reached herd immunity to the coronavirus, the picture is far more complex
Inside the incredibly slow race to reinvent time
19 August 2020
The latest atomic clocks are so staggeringly precise that they are going to redefine the second. The only question now is when
