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Artificial intelligence beats humans at crossword solving and assesses the health of ‘singing’ coral reefs

Physics World

Many people around the world enjoy doing crosswords, taking a few moments out of their day to test their knowledge and wordplay by answering clues to find words that complete the crossword grid. Crosswords are a puzzle that humans particularly excel at, so much so that we can outperform machines — or so we thought.

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AI beats a thousand of the world's best human crossword solvers

New Scientist

A crossword-solving AI has beaten more than a thousand of the best human solvers at the prestigious American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

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Inside The New York Times’ crossword correction on coal

Environmental News Bits

It is the Vatican of crossword puzzles, the apotheosis of wordsmithery and the arbiter of correctness in language and meaning. Read the full story at E&E News.

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Test your wits against this epic set of interlinked space puzzles

New Scientist

Fed up with bog-standard crosswords? Bored by suduko? Here's a set of interlinked, space-themed puzzles to download as a pdf that will really put your brain through its paces

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Climate Chronicles: Common Climate Vocabulary Shaping a Movement

Washington Nature

Download Crossword We invite you to look back on a year of challenge and growth by exploring these Climate Chronicles through learning a common lexicon crucial to TNC Washington’s work. Finally, download a printable crossword puzzle to challenge your knowledge!

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A demon of a puzzle

Physics World

Please note that this crossword is just for fun; there are no prizes. Weep, heavenly bodies, as right becomes left (8). 24 League tables wrap can in trashy newspapers (7). 25 Sob, love, for short information? Low-temperature provider (7). 27 Keck greeting fractures a halo (5). Answers will be published in the October issue of Physics World.

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Why open-source software is so powerful for physics: find out in the September 2021 issue of Physics World

Physics World

We celebrate its 150th anniversary in this thermodynamics-themed cryptic crossword compiled by Ian Randall. •A demon of a puzzle – In 1871 James Clerk Maxwell proposed a puzzle now known as “Maxwell’s Demon” in his book Theory of Heat.

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