India, Oct. 5 -- October is a busy month for two kinds of people. Horror fans rewatch their favourite films in building up to Halloween, even though there is no reason not to watch them at other times of the year. And the scientific community keenly follows which stalwarts in their respective fraternities win the Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry early in the month.

The Nobel Prizes have a more immediate context at the beginning of the month. We may have a puzzle based on horror films closer to Halloween, but let us look at the Nobels first.

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Let's take a peek into the future. The year is 2076 and the Nobel prizes are being discussed on prime time by a panel of five experts, themselves Nobel laureates from p...