New Scientist - USA (2021-11-20)

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This week’s issue

Features

36 Tell me why!

The human mind loves to

ask “why” and it doesn’t stop

when we become adults.

For our 65th anniversary,

we ask 13 of the biggest

whys about ourselves, the

cosmos and our place in it

51 The science of cooking

In praise of oysters

53 Puzzles

Try our crossword, quick quiz

and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word

Are cats at the top of the

evolutionary ladder?

56 Feedback

Net-zero elephants and more

highlights from COP

56 Twisteddoodles

for New Scientist

Picturing the lighter

side of life

Views The back pages

25 Comment

Bill Posters on stopping climate

change misinformation

26 The columnist

Global climate action must be

just, says Graham Lawton

28 Aperture

Striking photos cross the fine

line between ocean and air

30 Letters

How to solve the growing

problem of space debris

34 Culture

Jacob Aron prepares an alien

world for colonisation

News

7 New quantum contender

The largest superconducting

quantum computer yet

12 Is it Planet Nine?

Candidate spotted in telescope

data from 1980s

16 People who ghost

Abruptly stopping

contact is linked to

certain personality traits

32 Drunken monkeys Inside the world of animal intoxication

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Culture

36 Why...

13 of the most profound

questions about the cosmos

(and us)

8 The verdict on COP

On the

cover

Vol 252 No 3361

Cover image: Peter Crowther

“The

remarkable

thing is that

the world is

not arbitrary

or absurd”

36 Features

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