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On the
cover
17 The humming universe
Do gravitational waves
permeate all of space-time?
34 Beyond lithium
Batteries you can make
from common salt
44 Genetic exclusion
The diversity issue
undermining medicine
News
Views
Features
16 Superhuman sight
Lens makes UV light visible,
extending people’s vision
18 Quantum internet
Entangled particles have been
beamed between drones
18 Massive dinosaur
Fossils found in Argentina
may belong to the largest
land animal ever
23 Comment
We must publish ethnicity data
for covid-19 vaccinations,
says Layal Liverpool
24 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on Silicon
Valley’s political power
26 Letters
Will a vaccine be the cure
we need for long covid?
28 Aperture
A Cuvier’s gazelle and its calf
30 Culture
Diving Deep looks back at
film-maker Mike deGruy
51 Science of cooking
How to get the best out
of beans
52 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick
quiz and logic puzzle
54 Almost the last word
What is the smallest animal
with eyes? Readers respond
55 Tom Gauld for New Scientist
A cartoonist’s take on the world
56 Feedback
Shorts that tickle and utile
resistance: the week in weird
34 Beyond lithium
Can we make cheap, plentiful
batteries from sodium chloride?
40 Extreme exhaustion
Why parental burnout is on
the rise and what to do about it
44 Genetic exclusion
Genomic data is heavily
skewed to white Europeans,
excluding many from
a medical revolution
The back pages
15 Secret of life Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought
Vol 249 No 3318
Cover image: Vanessa Branchi
The evolving virus
8 Everything you need to
know about the new variants
10 What it means for the
roll-out of vaccines
12 How long before this
is just another cold?
40 Parental burnout
Why it’s time to take
it seriously
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News
16 Saving the northern white rhino
20 Unswattable flies 54 Bin bag
smell 20 How to spot a liar
20 Oldest animal painting
This week’s issue
44 Features
“ There’s this
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of treating
Indigenous
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genomes like
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