36 | New Scientist | 20 November 2021
Ours are enquiring minds,
primed to ask “why?”. Luckily
for us, we live in a universe
that gives us answers.
Sometimes. In this special
issue to celebrate New
Scientist’s 65th anniversary,
we poke at 13 “whys” about
ourselves, the cosmos and
our place in it that take us
to the very edge of our
understanding – questions
as enigmatic, and sometimes
more so, as they were when
this magazine first appeared