22 August 2020 | New Scientist | 1On the
cover9 Can pets spread covid-19?
Why cats and dogs should
socially distance too14 Flower power
Rare plant threatens
lithium supply15 Dark side of mindfulness
Meditation can cause
harmful effectsNews
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8 Sweden’s soft lockdown
Was the unusual strategy
a success or a failure?18 Dish disaster
One of the world’s largest
telescopes has been damaged
during a tropical storm19 Call-blocking assistant
Virtual assistant screens out
nuisance calls from robots23 Comment
Scott Nuismer and James Bull
on self-disseminating vaccines24 The columnist
Graham Lawton wants
us to rewild the sky26 Letters
Another good reason for
universal mask wearing?28 Aperture
Surf’s up again on the
beaches by Fukushima33 Culture
Tesla does better with Thomas
Edison than its main subject53 Puzzles
Cryptic crossword and the quiz54 More puzzles
Is Private Perkins facing
the right way on parade?54 Cartoons
Life through the lens of
Tom Gauld and Twisteddoodles55 Feedback
Excel eccentricities and a plague
of puns: the week in weird56 The last word
What is the real stuff in
the observable universe?36 Rot at the core of science
Psychologist Stuart Ritchie
on how the scientific process
leads us to believe in fictions42 Time to rethink time
Atomic clocks are so precise that
they are going to redefine time.
The only question is when47 Feeling queasy?
We are finally making
sense of motion sicknessThe back pages
32 Hominin history Kindred explores Neanderthal cave art and moreVol 247 No 3296
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Edward Carvalho-Monaghan42 Time to rethink time
Inside the incredibly slow
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13 Ambulance hacking
15 Vampire squirrel
14 Fastest star 11 Russia’s vaccine
13 Levitating cells 36 Fraud in scienceThis week’s issue
47 Features
“ Why don’t
we get
motion
sickness
when
jumping
around on a
dance floor?”