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The ancient board games we finally know how to play – thanks to AI
In the 1970s, in a grave in a Bronze Age cemetery in Shahr-i Sokhta, Iran, an incredible object…
Christmas puzzles: Test your brain with this fiendish set of museum-themed teasers
Test your wits against this epic set of interlinked space puzzles Fed up with bog-standard crosswords? Bored by…
Make these four classic cocktails and become a fluid dynamics expert
Proteins come together to make the foam in a gin fizz Alex Overhiser YOU may think that complex…
Science and technology’s newest words and what they tell us about 2023
Ageotype In 2020, Michael Snyder, a geneticist at Stanford University in California, discovered that we tend to age…
Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun
MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY IT ALL seemed so simple when we knew the date of Earth’s demise. In…
15 mind-bending scientific riddles to enjoy solving with your family
1. The most common form of aluminium ore, a wild goat, a rectangular array of numbers and radiation…
The unlikely extremophiles lurking in your kitchen
“CAN I ask what all this is for?” The pharmacy assistant is eyeing me suspiciously. I have just…
Flavour bridging: How to cook a bizarre but delicious Christmas dinner
Guests enjoy a main course of turkey, peanuts and chocolate to test “flavour bridging” theory David Stock SOME…