Quick crossword #103: Agent that alters genetic material (7)
10 March 2022
Challenge your brain by solving New Scientist's weekly crosswords on your mobile, tablet or desktop
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Tom Gauld on the impossibility of keeping up with physics
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Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Twisteddoodles: Plants growing in the rich soil of social media
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This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
The dentist that wants to calm patients with cuddles from dogs
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A dog-friendly dentist, a Dolly Parton NTF art series and fracking in your living room, in Feedback’s weird weekly roundup
Help cancer research by playing the GENIGMA phone puzzle game
9 March 2022
DNA becomes disordered inside cancer cells, and playing GENIGMA on your smartphone will help researchers discover the dangerous forms DNA can fold into, says Layal Liverpool
This week’s new questions
9 March 2022
Why does the H sound get dropped in some languages such as Italian, French and Cockney English? And why, or how, do winds gust?
What caused this red-only rainbow, when there was no rain? (part 2)
9 March 2022
It’s a misconception that rain is needed to form a rainbow says one reader, who is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society
In the cold, why does our body require warm covers but not our face?
9 March 2022
On a cold night, why does our body require clothing or bedding yet our face remains warm without covering?
If energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it come from?
9 March 2022
No energy needed to be created when the universe came into existence for some very counter-intuitive reasons, say our readers
Puzzle #158: Can you work out an old Five Nations rugby fixtures list?
9 March 2022
Can you solve this week’s sporty puzzle League of Nations? Plus the answer to puzzle #157
