New Scientist - USA (2020-08-01)

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1 August 2020 | New Scientist | 1 On the cover Coronavirus latest 11 Is blood type a risk factor? 9 The drugs stemming the tide ...

2 | New Scientist | 1 August 2020 The end of everything Astrophysicist Katie Mack on our cosmic fate Virtual event Podcast Video ...

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1 August 2020 | New Scientist | 7 CASES of the coronavirus hit a new daily high of around 300, globally on 27 July, with more th ...

8 | New Scientist | 1 August 2020 LAST week was a big one for Sarah Gilbert at the University of Oxford, leader of the team that ...

1 August 2020 | New Scientist | 9 says Gilbert. “Immunity to pathogens and vaccines is not necessarily the same,” she says. “The ...

10 | New Scientist | 1 August 2020 News Coronavirus AMID rising global numbers of daily coronavirus infections, a fresh flush of ...

1 August 2020 | New Scientist | 11 Risk factors Graham Lawton Can blood type alter covid-19 risk? Blood type may affect whether ...

12 | New Scientist | 1 August 2020 Cosmology ARTIFICIAL intelligence has been trained to identify individual birds. The system i ...

1 August 2020 | New Scientist | 13 MICROBES that have been hibernating deep below the Pacific Ocean since the reign of the dinos ...

14 | New Scientist | 1 August 2020 News Genetics Space Alice Klein A RADIATION-absorbing fungus found at the destroyed Chernobyl ...

1 August 2020 | New Scientist | 15 THIS year’s hottest destination is Mars. On 23 July, China launched the Tianwen-1 mission to ...

16 | New Scientist | 1 August 2020 THE DNA of ancient smallpox viruses has been found in the bones and teeth of people who died ...

1 August 2020 | New Scientist | 17 Analysis Plastic EVEN if we took every feasible action to cut plastic pollution, we would sti ...

18 | New Scientist | 1 August 2020 Infectious disease Foxes raided ancient humans’ rubbish too WE SHOULDN’T be surprised at how ...