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One important piece of the puzzle involves microglia, specialized immune cells that serve as the brain's maintenance and defense system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the wartime missive written in code, creating a puzzle that went unsolved for more than 200 years -- until AI cracked it in a matter of hours.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“He was the first piece of the puzzle that allowed us to begin writing,” says Ambrossi.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

For ten years, Jonathan Blow has been working with a small team on what he believes is "the biggest puzzle game ever made".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Big or small, they were all framed and hung in a perfect spot, fitting together like a puzzle.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

What emerges is a book as entertaining as it is informative, a smartly crafted account that covers a broad swath of history’s most confounding puzzles and startling rediscoveries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The “American Idol” alum took to social media on Saturday to call out Art of Play, a high-end “curiosity shop” that sells puzzles, games and other whimsical goods, for her negative experience during a visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Expect a series of escape room-inspired puzzles to unravel, a bounty of ’80s references and a chance to encounter a Teddy Ruxpin doll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

In simulations, the information theory method successfully solved 99% of Wordle puzzles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

To solve what amounted to one of history’s greatest jigsaw puzzles, the INA put together a team of Turkish and American archaeology students and put them to work.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Not long ago, ordering a nonalcoholic beer at Oktoberfest could draw puzzled looks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Their migration has long fascinated scientists, who have puzzled over how they found their way on a journey they only ever make once.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The resurgence of totalizing ideologies among the young has a lot of smart people puzzled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Mars' innermost moon, Phobos, has puzzled planetary scientists for decades.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

More than anyone, he would appreciate how I’d puzzled something through.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

It is puzzling to me why Maupassant’s elder and mentor, Gustave Flaubert, is the object of so much cultish admiration while the protégé is comparatively neglected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Speaking of parks, it’s inconsistent and puzzling that the museum’s beautiful park, which edges right up to the building, can be entered without having to also pass through security.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The new research suggests that many of these puzzling patterns can instead be explained by one basic process: collisions between neighboring floes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Attacks on military and defence targets are not new, although previous acts of sabotage linked to Russia include more puzzling targets - such as an Ikea store and a Polish paint store.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond