New Scientist 21Mar2020

WORLD’S OLDEST CITY Could Liangzhu be the true cradle of civilization? LIFE UNDER A RED SUN Nearest star system to ours may be h ...

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21 March 2020 | New Scientist | 3 This week’s issue 20 An impossible law Many common crops are now illegal in France Insight Dea ...

What is consciousness? What is intelligence? Why do we sleep and dream? What causes cognitive decline? Where do our personalitie ...

21 March 2020 | New Scientist | 5 ABRUPTLY, the world is in lockdown. Many of the countries that aren’t there yet will be there ...

Take a step back from the everyday chores of being human to tackle the big – and small – questions about our nature, behaviour a ...

21 March 2020 | New Scientist | 7 TOLGA AKMEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES News Coronavirus update THE total number of coronavirus cases ...

LAST month, the World Health Organization’s assistant director general Bruce Aylward set out to learn more about China’s respons ...

How effective is closing schools? That’s a tough one. The data [on this is] for a different disease – it’s for flu. Kids get the ...

10 | New Scientist | 21 March 2020 THE covid-19 virus is humanity’s newest foe, with the potential to prematurely end millions o ...

21 March 2020 | New Scientist | 11 importance also to help against future outbreaks and not only the current pandemic,” she says ...

12 | New Scientist | 21 March 2020 MANY cities in China normally experience dangerous levels of PM2.5, the tiny particulate matt ...

Discovery Tours newscientist.com/tours Tiger conservation safari: India Visit the reserves of Pench and Tadoba in search of the ...

14 | New Scientist | 21 March 2020 Conservation Adam Vaughan Shrinking Amazon Weak law enforcement may be behind record deforest ...

21 March 2020 | New Scientist | 15 Technology Astronomy Frederick O’Brien Abigail Beall AN ARTIFICIALLY intelligent eco-assistan ...

16 | New Scientist | 21 March 2020 Human evolution COMETS appear to have 10 times less nitrogen than they ought to, based on our ...

Discovery Tours newscientist.com/tours Ancient caves, human origins Step back more than 10,000 years to discover how our ancesto ...