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Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

When the scent of morning coffee wafts past the nose, the brain encodes which nostril it enters, new research shows 1. Integrating information from both nostrils might help us to identify the odour.

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Delaney Aby Saalman talked to Insider about regretting the nose job she got at 16. Saalman never felt satisfied after two nose jobs, and a plastic surgeon turned her down for a third. Saalman ...