This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s ...

This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s ...

This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s ...

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