Cryptic crossword #45: Find plastic in heat generating field? (4,4)
26 November 2020
Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop
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Tom Gauld's multidisciplinary road network featuring lava tubes
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Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
The race to find and stop viruses that could cause the next pandemic
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The coronavirus pandemic is still raging, but the clock is ticking towards the next big virus threat – can we track it down before it makes the leap from animals to humans?
China's Chang'e 5 probe is the start of a new era of lunar exploration
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Chang'e 5 is set to bring moon rocks back to Earth for the first time in more than four decades – and China has even more ambitious plans for lunar missions in the coming years
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This unreal landscape captures the environmental price of intensive oil exploitation paid by a desert in Kern County, California. The image was taken by David Gardner and won a prize at the 2020 BarTur Photo Award
Why flange and quingle are such funny words according to science
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The science of funny words like proffic, quingle and probble, plus the problem of prudish computers, in Feedback’s werid weekly round-up
This week’s new questions
25 November 2020
What causes planets, the sun and galaxies to spin? And is it better for the environment to read a book or newspaper online or in a paper format?
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25 November 2020
More reasons why light passes through some substances but reflects from others
Is it better to sniff or blow your nose?
25 November 2020
Our readers discuss whether sniffing or blowing your nose is better for you and which is more polite
