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

TELL

ME

WHY