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New Scientist

Apr 17 2021
Magazine

New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world. New Scientist employs and commissions the best writers in their fields from all over the world. Our editorial team provide cutting-edge news, award-winning features and reports, written in concise and clear language that puts discoveries and advances in the context of everyday life today and in the future.

Elsewhere on New Scientist

Safe for work • As lockdowns ease and offices reopen, covid-proofing is only part of the challenge

New Scientist

India’s covid-19 surge • More transmissible variants may be to blame for record numbers of coronavirus cases, reports Michael Le Page

How to make our offices safe • We can’t just rely on people to change their behaviour to make the workplace a safe and happy place during the pandemic, says Michael Marshall

Why going back to offices may affect mental health

Nuclear-powered rockets • The US plans to revive an old technology to make spacecraft that can be steered more easily

Regular headphones can detect a heart rate and count steps

Unusual trial tests how money affects child development

Web vibrations are turned into sound to give us spidey sense

A machine that thinks like us • Researchers have created a device that emulates a conscious response

Chocolate expected to taste sweeter from a pink packet

Muons point to new physics • The way that some subatomic particles spin offers hints of unknown physical forces

Bushfires warmed the stratosphere by 1°C for six months

Redesign makes drones quieter and less annoying

Odd neurons hint that nervous systems evolved twice

Ending fossil fuel extraction • To meet climate goals and stop runaway warming, we need to focus on limiting fossil fuel supply and not just demand, reports Adam Vaughan

Tiny tweaks are not enough

American eagles falling foul of poison meant for rodents

Mars went from wet to dry to wet again

Threat to ice shelves without climate action

Really brief

We tend to overlook the simple solutions

Fading sight and hearing may be a risk factor for dementia

Bitcoin in China has a polluting future

The missing piece • Attempts to tackle undernutrition in children around the world often overlook an important part of the puzzle, says Priti Parikh

Where Substack went wrong • Paid-for newsletters on Substack were a great innovation, but the way it has changed means I will no longer be writing for it, writes Annalee Newitz

Your letters

What lies below

Physics and prejudice • Can you combine a love of physics with a strong analysis of the inequalities widespread in science? Anna Demming explores a bold new book

Women winning in science • A podcast about unique awards for female scientists shows the vital progress made, but also the hard path ahead, says Gege Li

Don’t miss

A serious crush • As Fugitive Telemetry, the latest instalment in The Murderbot Diaries, is published, readers still can’t get enough of the android killing-machine that prefers box sets to interacting with humans. What’s its secret, asks Sally Adee

The science of can and can’t • A radical way of formulating laws of nature promises insights into everything from quantum gravity to what makes us tick, says physicist Chiara Marletto

A NEW THERMODYNAMICS

How to keep your brain blooming • Little things you do every day can help ensure your brain is fit and healthy – and it’s never too late to start, says ageing expert James Goodwin

Chew it over

Sex on the brain

Submerged secrets • The coasts walked by ancient humans were drowned by rising seas. Now we are...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 60 Publisher: New Scientist Ltd Edition: Apr 17 2021

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New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world. New Scientist employs and commissions the best writers in their fields from all over the world. Our editorial team provide cutting-edge news, award-winning features and reports, written in concise and clear language that puts discoveries and advances in the context of everyday life today and in the future.

Elsewhere on New Scientist

Safe for work • As lockdowns ease and offices reopen, covid-proofing is only part of the challenge

New Scientist

India’s covid-19 surge • More transmissible variants may be to blame for record numbers of coronavirus cases, reports Michael Le Page

How to make our offices safe • We can’t just rely on people to change their behaviour to make the workplace a safe and happy place during the pandemic, says Michael Marshall

Why going back to offices may affect mental health

Nuclear-powered rockets • The US plans to revive an old technology to make spacecraft that can be steered more easily

Regular headphones can detect a heart rate and count steps

Unusual trial tests how money affects child development

Web vibrations are turned into sound to give us spidey sense

A machine that thinks like us • Researchers have created a device that emulates a conscious response

Chocolate expected to taste sweeter from a pink packet

Muons point to new physics • The way that some subatomic particles spin offers hints of unknown physical forces

Bushfires warmed the stratosphere by 1°C for six months

Redesign makes drones quieter and less annoying

Odd neurons hint that nervous systems evolved twice

Ending fossil fuel extraction • To meet climate goals and stop runaway warming, we need to focus on limiting fossil fuel supply and not just demand, reports Adam Vaughan

Tiny tweaks are not enough

American eagles falling foul of poison meant for rodents

Mars went from wet to dry to wet again

Threat to ice shelves without climate action

Really brief

We tend to overlook the simple solutions

Fading sight and hearing may be a risk factor for dementia

Bitcoin in China has a polluting future

The missing piece • Attempts to tackle undernutrition in children around the world often overlook an important part of the puzzle, says Priti Parikh

Where Substack went wrong • Paid-for newsletters on Substack were a great innovation, but the way it has changed means I will no longer be writing for it, writes Annalee Newitz

Your letters

What lies below

Physics and prejudice • Can you combine a love of physics with a strong analysis of the inequalities widespread in science? Anna Demming explores a bold new book

Women winning in science • A podcast about unique awards for female scientists shows the vital progress made, but also the hard path ahead, says Gege Li

Don’t miss

A serious crush • As Fugitive Telemetry, the latest instalment in The Murderbot Diaries, is published, readers still can’t get enough of the android killing-machine that prefers box sets to interacting with humans. What’s its secret, asks Sally Adee

The science of can and can’t • A radical way of formulating laws of nature promises insights into everything from quantum gravity to what makes us tick, says physicist Chiara Marletto

A NEW THERMODYNAMICS

How to keep your brain blooming • Little things you do every day can help ensure your brain is fit and healthy – and it’s never too late to start, says ageing expert James Goodwin

Chew it over

Sex on the brain

Submerged secrets • The coasts walked by ancient humans were drowned by rising seas. Now we are...


Expand title description text