CERN muon detector gets major upgrade for better particle hunting

21 October 2020

Weighing in at 14,000 tonnes, the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider can now detect more of the subatomic particles created when protons are collided

Why the end of the world will come preprogrammed in a spreadsheet

21 October 2020

Excel confusion, plus coronavirus omnishambles competition and quantum eagles in Feedback's weekly round-up from the world of weird

Puzzle #82: Dogmandoo

21 October 2020

Can you help the reporter work out the rainy details he forgot to write down in the press conference? Plus the answer to puzzle #81 "A bridge top far"

Black Box review: Smart sci fi plays with identity, fate and death

21 October 2020

Black Box is an intelligent and melancholy sci-fi film in which a man who loses his memory in a car crash takes extreme steps to get his life back, writes Simon Ings

Don’t Miss: The War on Wildlife podcast exposes our attacks on animals

21 October 2020

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss

Feels Good Man review: Reclaiming Pepe the Frog from the alt-right

21 October 2020

Pepe the Frog ended up as the darling of both anarchists and the alt-right. A documentary tells the surprising true story of the super-meme and its creator

How big data helped elect President Kennedy during the cold war

21 October 2020

Big data's power is revealed by two books covering a cold-war version of Cambridge Analytica that helped John F. Kennedy get elected-and how modern social media can rig votes today

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21 October 2020

Maybe nuclear isn't so bad after all

21 October 2020

Without wildlife, the future may be like this

21 October 2020