New Scientist - USA (2021-10-30)

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This week’s issue

Features

38 Vegan meats

You might be surprised at what

you will find in plant-based food

42 Space jam

How a proliferation of satellites

is affecting our skies, and what

can be done about it

47 Andreas Malm interview

Climate activist and human

ecologist says we need more

than peaceful protests

52 Stargazing at home

How to find Canis Major and

Canis Minor using Orion

53 Puzzles

Try our crossword, quick quiz

and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word

Is it normal for rooks to bury

bread instead of eating it?

55 Tom Gauld for New Scientist

A cartoonist’s take on the world

56 Feedback

Why researchers are making

honeybees crash into walls

The back pages

Views

27 Comment

Don’t overlook grasslands

in the fight against climate

change, says Gill Perkins

28 The columnist

Annalee Newitz dives into the

secrets of the streaming giants

30 Aperture

When art and climate collide

32 Letters

Don’t let the RNA medical

revolution get derailed

35 Culture

What Frankenstein tells us

about the science of life

News

13 Male fertility

Frozen testes tissue could

soon be reimplanted

16 Cryptocurrency chaos

Rocky start for El Salvador’s

bitcoin experiment

19 Dim supernova

Barely-there star

explosion leaves

astronomers puzzled

18 Faithful steed When were horses first domesticated?

LUDOVIC ORLANDO/NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK/AMIS/CNRS PHOTOTHÈQUE

News

COP26 climate summit

8 The key issues and players

10 Countries’ emissions gaps

12 Ed Miliband interview:

How not to screw things up

19 Covid spread

How much do vaccines

reduce transmission?

On the

cover

Vol 252 No 3358

Cover image: Vasif Bagirov/iStock

38 The vegan health trap

The hidden perils of

plant-based substitute foods

42 Blighted skies

Is space junk making

astronomy impossible?

34 Kim Stanley Robinson interview

24 Brain in a dish

54 Do magnets affect our cells?

24 World’s oldest crab

“Business as

usual won’t

be broken

without the

threat of

significant

mass unrest”

47 Features

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