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Search Tips:
- Your search is case insensitive e.g. ANTIMATTER will return the same number of results as antimatter
- Use * as a wildcard. For example, clon* will find stories about cloning, clones, cloners etc.
- Further tips below
FURTHER SEARCH TIPS
- The Basics of New Scientist Search
- To enter a query into New Scientist, just type in a few descriptive words and hit the 'search' key for a list of relevant stories
To speed up your search we have limited the number of words that can be entered to five. This does not include common words.
- Choosing Keywords
- For best results, it's important to choose your keywords wisely. Keep these tips to mind
- Try the obvious first. If you are looking for information on Dolly the sheep, enter "Dolly" rather than "clones"
- Use words likely to appear in a story with the information you want. "supersonic air vehicle" gets better results than "really fast ways of flying"
- Make keywords as specific as possible. "cod atlantic" gets more relevant results than "fish ocean"
- If you still have trouble, try different, similar words. If "watering" doesn't bring back the article you're looking for, maybe "irrigation" might.
- Automatic Exclusion of Common Words
- Our search ignores common words and characters such as "where" and "how", as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results. We will indicate if a common word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page above the list of results
- Capitalisation
- Our searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for "antimatter", "ANTIMATTER" and "AnTIMATter" will all return the same results.
- Word Variations (Stemming)
- To provide you with a greater range of results, our search functionality allows "stemming" or "wildcard" searches. In other words, searching for "clon*" will return cloning, clones, cloners etc. To narrow your search results down, try to spell out the whole word or use as many letters as possible before adding a *.
- Advanced search options
- This information is intended for expert users only. It is possible to search on certain other aspects of articles by putting a specific identifier, followed by a colon and the relevant keyword, into the keyword search box above. The identifiers currently available are magazine page ("page:"), magazine section ("section:"), article author ("author:"), issue number ("issue:") and website category ("category:"). Some examples of how you might use these follow:
page:21
section:"in brief"
author:"will knight"
issue:2484
category:mech-tech
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