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Cryptic crossword #106: Two goats upset antelope (3-3)

30 March 2023

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


A middle-aged, blue-eyed, Caucasian person's eye looks to the side while smiling with wrinkled skin.

Banishing wrinkles could boost healthy ageing – so who pays the bill?

29 March 2023

Research suggesting that wrinkles could be a driver of ageing means we need to rethink the beauty industry – and who pays for it


LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - APRIL 09: win Randox Grand National Handicap Steeple Chase at Aintree Racecourse on April 09, 2022 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)

This week’s new questions

29 March 2023

What could have caused these strange ice patterns on a glass door (pictured)? And are racehorses aware that they are expected to come first?


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How would weather change if Earth rotated in the opposite direction?

29 March 2023

Our planet and its history would be very different if our planet spun the other way, say our readers


Farmer harvesting organic rhubarb from her kitchen garden. Rhubarb can be harvested many times through the year. Photographed at an ???off grid??? home on the island of Moen in Denmark. Colour, horizontal format with some copy space.

How was rhubarb found to be edible when it isn’t palatable raw?

29 March 2023

Many of our readers disagree that raw rhubarb tastes horrible, and come up with many reasons why this plant became a food crop


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Puzzle #215: How often will the month and the day be the same number?

29 March 2023

Can you solve this week’s arithmetical puzzle, Trivia Tuesday? Plus the answer to puzzle #214


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Don't Miss: Titanosaur on show at London's Natural History Museum

29 March 2023

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


2F618EY Landing of the James Caird On South Georgia, 1916

Presence review: A lively look at why we experience ghostly presences

29 March 2023

Many people feel an uncanny "presence" when no one is there. Ben Alderson-Day explores why this is, in a lively and comprehensive book


HANGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 24, 2022 - Visitors interact with the

Virtual You review: The quest to build your digital twin

29 March 2023

It would be the ultimate in personalised medicine: a digital version of your body, which doctors could use to predict what diseases might befall you and your future health. A new book from Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield asks if it is possible


What do you call gunk with mathematical qualities? Hypergunk

What do you call gunk with mathematical qualities? Hypergunk

29 March 2023

Feedback explores hypergunk, one of the concepts behind irreducibly collective existence and bottomless nihilism, and gets involved in the war going on in the nasal cavity


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