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“Our leading candidate for a theory of everything is known as M-theory. It grew from a merger of the two seemingly different approaches: 11-dimensional supergravity and 10-dimensional superstring theory. Could this be the final theory of everything?”
― New Scientist, New Scientist: The Collection, Vol. 2.5: 15 Ideas You Need to Understand

“curved in a particular way”
― New Scientist, New Scientist: The Collection, Vol. 1.2: The Unknown Universe

“At least five times in the past 540 million years half or more of all species have been wiped out in a short space of time.”
― New Scientist, New Scientist: The Collection, Vol. 2.5: 15 Ideas You Need to Understand

“In the Song of the White Horse by David Bedford, the lead soprano is required to breathe in helium to reach the extremely high top note.”
― New Scientist, Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

“hurricanes are ranked from 1 to 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale,”
― New Scientist, New Scientist: The Collection, Vol. 2.5: 15 Ideas You Need to Understand

“babies may feel their own emotions and the emotions of others, without being able to tell them apart”
― New Scientist, How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe

“Dreams help us to consolidate our memories, to make sense of our new experiences and keep our emotions in check.”
― New Scientist, How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the universe

“For example, multiplying two six-digit prime numbers like 323,123 and 596,977 together is a relatively easy task. With a minute and a pencil and paper, you would get 192,896,999,171. But if instead you were given the number 192,896,999,171 and asked to find the two prime numbers that divide it, you would need a lot more time to test all of the different possibilities. In public-key encryption the numbers are much larger, but computers have to perform very similar tasks.”
― New Scientist, The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution

“During a tornado in Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, on 3 May 1999, Doppler radar revealed a wind speed of 486 kilometres per hour about 30 metres above the ground – the fastest ever recorded.”
― New Scientist, New Scientist: The Collection, Vol. 2.5: 15 Ideas You Need to Understand

“It is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.”
― New Scientist, New Scientist: The Collection, Vol. 2.5: 15 Ideas You Need to Understand