2021-01-16 New Scientist

16 January 2021 | New Scientist | 1

On the

cover

Coronavirus vaccine roll-out

8 Mixing-and-matching

vaccines

9 Which countries

are doing best?

8 Delaying the second dose

10 Can the UK hit its targets?

11 How friendship can boost

your immune response

News

Views

Features

15 Frog traps

Spiders spotted weaving

leaves together to catch frogs

18 Salty groundwater

The water that supports

the global food chain may

become too salty to use

19 Arty artificial intelligence

AI illustrator draws fun pictures

to go with text captions

23 Comment

Adam Vaughan on the

best-ever year for electric cars

24 The columnist

Welcome to the green decade,

says Graham Lawton

26 Letters

Perhaps evolution has

squared that circle

28 Aperture

A close look at the Advanced

Virgo+ interferometer

32 Culture

Second Spring looks at a

lesser-known side of dementia

52 Stargazing at home

Hunting a hexagram of stars

53 Puzzles

Try our crossword, quick

quiz and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word

How long is the gap between

the past and the future?

56 Feedback

Reading backwards or

forwards: the week in weird

56 Twisteddoodles

for New Scientist

Picturing the lighter side of life

36 Rethinking intelligence

Our dominant idea of what

makes a person smart needs

a radical overhaul

42 Taming CRISPR

The gene-editing technique

will transform medicine if it

can be controlled

46 Superconductors get hot

Are these wonder materials

finally getting practical?

The back pages

16 Musical roots Could swinging from trees explain why we love music?

Vol 249 No 3317

Cover image: Timo Kuilder

36 Have we got

intelligence all wrong?

Why an obsession with

IQ is holding us all back

46 Rise of superconductors

An energy revolution

edges closer to reality

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News

12 Tree-planting robots

42 Off-switch for CRISPR

21 How megalodon got so big

14 2020 heat record

This week’s issue

36 Features

“ Intelligence

tests work

perversely

to increase

social and

economic

barriers”