New Scientist - USA (2021-12-18)

and beckoned Ragnhildur and Inez to follow her. “Now, we have champagne and I introduce you to people.” Inez’s phone buzzed on h ...

bag and set it on the counter. Next to the thumbs. The box was out of the line of sight of the wall unit, but she still pushed i ...

touched the tips of the thumbs together and activated them. They twitched and then waited, inert, next to the rest of her finger ...

her piano and looked past the ebony wood into the darkness of the concert hall. The glow from the stage just picked out the fron ...

SCIENCE SEARCH How well do you know the basic constituents of life, the universe and everything? Find out with the fiendishly di ...

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Blanket coverage THIS apparently wintery scene seems fitting for many at this time of year, if somewhat extreme. Yet this isn’t ...

ESSENTIAL GUIDES Albert Einstein’s space-and-time-warping theories of relativity have revolutionised our view of the cosmos over ...

Features 18/25 December 2021 | New Scientist | 49 UN SP LA SH /^ CH RIS TIA N^ G RA B Milky Way shakes The cosmic collisions tha ...

On a raft and a prayer Fresh clues could finally tell us if monkeys and other animals sailed across oceans on floating islands o ...

Office in Washington DC received reports of a stand of trees floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Described as “a piece of forest cov ...

Ali. He points out that the flora and fauna of distant islands generally consist of a fairly random selection of descendants of ...

> A galaxy passes through other galaxies in a group known as Stephan’s quintet H UMANS have always been captivated by the Mil ...

The Gaia satellite is now pulling this blurry history into focus by measuring the distance and motion of billions of stars up to ...

his colleagues, for example, have proposed that the snail shell pattern is an echo of the Milky Way’s central bar buckling long ...

A whiff of the past Ambergris isn’t just an ingredient of luxury perfumes, finds Claire Ainsworth T HEY say, where there’s muck, ...

Ambergris washes up worldwide, including in East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, parts of northern Europe, t ...

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