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Holiday long reads
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How a plan to make the world’s largest snowflake was humbled by nature
In London, where I live, you can forget about a white Christmas. The best I can hope for…
From enshittocene to virome, science and technology’s words of 2024
Strembryo Until recently, scientists studying the earliest moments of human development relied on embryos donated by people undergoing…
Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?
We will never know who spoke the first sentence or what they said, but we can have some…
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…
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…
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…