SCIENCE SEARCH
How well do you know the basic constituents of life,
the universe and everything? Find out with the fiendishly
difficult New Scientist word search.
IN OUR letter grid, you will find the 17 known
types of fundamental particle (we have let you
off the antiparticles), the 20 standard amino
acids that make up life’s proteins and all 118
officially named elements in the periodic table.
Fair warning: the words you are looking for
can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal, and gobackwards as well as forwards. And because
we know how clued-up you are, we aren’t
going to give you any of the words.
Flag your scores on Twitter @newscientist –
and no cheating! However, if you are really
stuck you will find a word checklist at
TE newscientist.com/wordsearch-checklist.
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