23 January 2021 | New Scientist | 1On the
cover17 The humming universe
Do gravitational waves
permeate all of space-time?34 Beyond lithium
Batteries you can make
from common salt44 Genetic exclusion
The diversity issue
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16 Superhuman sight
Lens makes UV light visible,
extending people’s vision18 Quantum internet
Entangled particles have been
beamed between drones18 Massive dinosaur
Fossils found in Argentina
may belong to the largest
land animal ever23 Comment
We must publish ethnicity data
for covid-19 vaccinations,
says Layal Liverpool24 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on Silicon
Valley’s political power26 Letters
Will a vaccine be the cure
we need for long covid?28 Aperture
A Cuvier’s gazelle and its calf30 Culture
Diving Deep looks back at
film-maker Mike deGruy51 Science of cooking
How to get the best out
of beans52 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick
quiz and logic puzzle54 Almost the last word
What is the smallest animal
with eyes? Readers respond55 Tom Gauld for New Scientist
A cartoonist’s take on the world56 Feedback
Shorts that tickle and utile
resistance: the week in weird34 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 it44 Genetic exclusion
Genomic data is heavily
skewed to white Europeans,
excluding many from
a medical revolutionThe back pages
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Cover image: Vanessa BranchiThe 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
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16 Saving the northern white rhino
20 Unswattable flies 54 Bin bag
smell 20 How to spot a liar
20 Oldest animal paintingThis week’s issue
44 Features
“ There’s this
new modality
of treating
Indigenous
people’s
genomes like
coal or cobalt”