New Scientist Int 4.04.2020

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4 April 2020 | New Scientist | 3

On the
cover

Focus on coronavirus
9 The hunt for patient zero
12 Choosing who to ventilate
8 Does ‘viral load’ matter?
44 The race for treatments
11 At-home testing
12 The virus on surfaces

News


Views


Features


14 Mind-reading
An AI can translate thoughts
into sentences

18 Code on ice
Arctic data bank to store cloud
software for 1000 years

19 Impossible predictions
Why we won’t ever be able to
predict some events that obey
the basic laws of physics

23 Comment
Christiana Figueres and Tom
Rivett-Carnac on tackling two
global crises at once

24 The columnist
Graham Lawton on getting
a nature fix in the pandemic

26 Letters
Who is footing the bill for
the covid-19 vaccine?

28 Aperture
Magnified nature in all its glory

30 Culture
David Attenborough’s new
film is a forceful rallying cry

51 Science of cooking
Perfect pork crackling

52 Puzzles
Cryptic crossword, an art gallery
challenge and the quiz

53 Feedback
Where to get free will, plus
lockdown tales: the week
in weird

54 Almost the last word
Any advantages of left-
handedness or having big ears?

56 The Q&A
James Danckert on the upsides
of boredom

34 How we became human
The story of the origin of our
species is being radically
rewritten

44 Inside the race
for treatments
Thousands of people are
searching for coronavirus
treatments. Which are the
most promising and when
will they be ready?

The back pages


10 Environmental impact How lockdown is changing where we live

Vol 246 No 3276
Cover image: Thirteen-Fifty/
Daboost/iStock

34 How we
became human
The epic new story
of our origins

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News


15 Hot springs on Mars
20 Steps benefits 18 Pluto’s lost
ocean 51  Perfect pork crackling
52  Lockdown special cryptic
crossword

This week’s issue


44 Features


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to focus on


developing


drugs that


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the greatest


benefit to the


largest number


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