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Quiz of the week: what are researchers using to detect the motion of silent whales?
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Quiz of the week: how do scientists hope to protect Earth from dangerous solar storms?
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A demon of a puzzle: interactive cryptic crossword
Try this thermodynamics-themed cryptic crossword, republished in interactive form
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Quiz of the week: what’s the secret to the Venus flytrap’s swift closure?
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Word wave puzzle no.5
Can you work out the word in this puzzle?
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Quiz of the week: the last major galactic merger of the Milky Way created what feature?
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It’s all kicking off: how much do you know about the science of football?
Kick off the 2026 FIFA World Cup by testing your knowledge of the physics of football
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Quiz of the week: new SKA boss Jessica Dempsey did what before becoming an astronomer?
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Word flower puzzle no. 5
How many words can you find in this puzzle?
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Quiz of the week: CERN may have made a quark–gluon plasma by colliding which nuclei?
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Quiz of the week: which UK university plans to shed almost 30% of its physics staff?
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Word wave puzzle no.4
Can you work out the word in this puzzle?
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Quiz of the week: what technique may be able to create super-high laser intensities?
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Thumbs up to Artemis II: a jigsaw puzzle
Can you reconstruct the space image we’ve pulled apart?
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Quiz of the week: what device have physicists used to print ‘structural colours’?
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Word flower puzzle no. 4
How many words can you find in this puzzle?
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Quiz of the week: how far can new tiny knotted fibre leap into the air?
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Caffeine kick: can you solve our crossword on coffee physics?
Try our quick crossword about the physics of coffee
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