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How crossword puzzles mess with your mind

Health

How crossword puzzles mess with your mind

The agony and the ecstasy of solving a crossword puzzle can reflect a surprising amount about the subconscious mind, says Stephen Battersby

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Smart Guide to 2012: Higgs hunt is all about catching Zs

Physics

Smart Guide to 2012: Higgs hunt is all about catching Zs

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Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper

Physics

Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper

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The dust library

Physics

The dust library

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We have drift off: Balloons to the edge of space

Space

We have drift off: Balloons to the edge of space

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Level-up life: how gaming can enhance your reality

Health

Level-up life: how gaming can enhance your reality

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Apps for apes: Orang-utans want iPads for Christmas

Life

Apps for apes: Orang-utans want iPads for Christmas

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Regulars

The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves

The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves

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Rhyme and reason: The Victorian poet scientists

Physics

Rhyme and reason: The Victorian poet scientists

When formulae failed them, James Clerk Maxwell and other eminent men of science turned to verse, with often hilarious results

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Earth

Scott, Amundsen… and Nobu Shirase

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Technology

Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz

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Physics

Entangled diamonds blur quantum-classical divide

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Physics

LHC antimatter anomaly hints at new physics

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