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Cryptic crossword #104: Electronic device that's far from basic? (5)

2 March 2023

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

Tom Gauld on bedtime fears

1 March 2023

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Twisteddoodles on an unusual zombie infection

1 March 2023

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (13403526be) Demonstrators with the Millions Missing organization gather outside of the White House on September 19, 2022, laying down on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience to call for urgent governmental action for the millions of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis, long-term COVID, and other infection-associated, complex- chronic diseases. Civil Disobedience Health Care Protest At White House, Washington, d.c., United States - 19 Sep 2022

Long-neglected chronic conditions finally come into the spotlight

1 March 2023

Growing evidence that long-term conditions like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia are caused, wholly or in part, by viral infections is good news for millions of people

RPS Woman Science Photographer of the Year a small group of atmospheric scientists move a fluxsled to the ice, this was the first instrument deployed on the new MOSAiC floe. ?Leap of Science? by Lianna Nixon (USA)

See the top shots in the Woman Science Photographer of the Year award

1 March 2023

From bioluminescent marine algae to soap bubbles, these stunning images are some of the winners and finalists for the inaugural RPS Woman Science Photographer of the Year competition

We can't engineer our way out of the water crisis in the Southwest US

1 March 2023

Ever since Arizona was first colonised, politicians and entrepeneurs have sold residents the idea that human ingenuity can craft a solution to water shortfalls. It can't, argues Natalie Koch

Did public demand to watch moss grow overwhelm the 'Mosscam'?

1 March 2023

Feedback's repeated attempts to view a new webcam remotely monitoring the progress of Antarctic moss end in failure

A low angle action shot of a road cyclist approaching a smooth tarmac hill on a group ride around Seva, Catalonia, Spain.

This week’s new questions

1 March 2023

Why are the gears and chain always on the right-hand side of bicycles? And how come so many different animals – cats, geese, snakes and humans – use and understand the hissing sound?

T4AEYJ Stellar explosion shining in deep space, cosmic star blast in Universe. High resolution galaxy background.

In which direction in the sky did the big bang take place? (part 2)

1 March 2023

Our readers imagine that they are inside the soup of particles that originated in the big bang to attempt to get their heads round this question

How do eardrums convey sound? Don’t the various frequencies interfere?

1 March 2023

A single eardrum can create the rich symphony of sounds that we hear thanks to the ability of the cochlea, in the inner ear, to deconstruct complex sound waves