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Problematics | Murder mystery

India, Oct. 13 -- Problematics has occasionally had puzzles in which you cannot determine the complete set of variables, but can still settle specific questions with answers that remain the same in al... Read More


Chemistry Nobel| Solids full of holes: Crux of a Nobel find

India, Oct. 9 -- It is like piecing together a Lego structure, but with molecular components. Metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, the subject of the research behind this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistr... Read More


Barrier-defying phenomenon in quantum realm

NEW DELHI, Oct. 8 -- Even people without a background in science are familiar with Schrodinger's cat because of the sheer audacity of the idea: the cat in a box is both alive and dead at the same time... Read More


How laureates showed quantum effects on a life-size scale

India, Oct. 8 -- Even people without a background in science are familiar with Schrodinger's cat because of the sheer audacity of the idea: the cat in a box is both alive and dead at the same time unt... Read More


Physics Nobel: How laureates showed quantum effects on a life-size scale

India, Oct. 8 -- Even people without a background in science are familiar with Schrodinger's cat because of the sheer audacity of the idea: the cat in a box is both alive and dead at the same time unt... Read More


How Nobel laureates uncovered the body's immune watchdogs

India, Oct. 7 -- Our immune system is so powerful that it can sometimes attack parts of our body itself, leading to autoimmune disorders. Today, it is well known that the body has a regulatory mechani... Read More


Problematics | How to halve a square

India, Sept. 29 -- A recent research paper on how AI approaches mathematical problems provides the basis for the first of this week's puzzles. Mind you, I am not going into what AI did. The puzzle mer... Read More


Problematics | How to secure a crossword spot

India, Sept. 22 -- The Indian Crossword League, or IXL, is in progress. The second of 10 online rounds is currently live, with the subsequent rounds due every Sunday. The competition will end with a l... Read More


Problematics | Family planning

India, Aug. 4 -- George J Summers is the author of several books on puzzles, including Mensa puzzles, but I could not find any biographical information on him from either a Google search or an AI quer... Read More


Problematics | One for you, one for me

India, July 21 -- We learn some properties of numbers early in life, such as all products of 9 having a digital root of 9, and all single-digit multiplications with 37 leading to products with three r... Read More