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Quick crossword #72: Soviet satellite launched in 1957 (7)

3 December 2020

Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop

Tom Gauld on when marketing chooses where to put research groups

2 December 2020

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

The predictions of DeepMind’s latest AI could revolutionise medicine

2 December 2020

AlphaFold, DeepMind's new artificial intelligence, could accelerate drug development through its ability to predict the shape of the proteins that make up our bodies

Twisteddoodles on when gravity gets you down

2 December 2020

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

This week’s new questions

2 December 2020

If plastic is inert, why does it have a taste and smell? What is the evolutionary origin of our love of gambling? And, when walking, if I take five paces to cover a distance and my companion takes six, who is getting more exercise?

Why does halloumi, but not other cheese, “squeak” against your teeth?

2 December 2020

What is it about halloumi that makes it so rubbery, unlike most other foods?

What happens to the information in my brain when I die?

2 December 2020

It is a rule of physics that information can’t disappear, so where does the information stored in the brain go after death?

The Scandinavian secrets to keeping positive in a covid-19 winter

2 December 2020

Lockdown restrictions in winter might seem something to dread, but we can combat this by embracing the mindset of people used to long, dark winters, says health psychologist Kari Leibowitz

The absurd logic of ‘this notice board is not in use’

2 December 2020

How the pandemic forced a notice board to proclaim it is not in use, plus the best way to keep grounded according to pseudoscience and the court battle over if a bee is a fish, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up