New Scientist - USA (2022-01-01)

1 January 2022 | New Scientist | 1

This week’s issue

Features

36 The indulgence effect

Why changing the way you

perceive healthy food may be

the secret to successful dieting

41 For peat’s sake

The race to save the peat bogs

that slow climate change

46 Making time

What the thermodynamics

of clocks can tell us about

the true nature of time

51 Stargazing at home

Spot the most distant

galaxy visible to the naked eye

53 Puzzles

Try our crossword, quick quiz

and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word

Why do many animals have

five fingers and toes

55 Tom Gauld for New Scientist

A cartoonist’s take on the world

56 Feedback

Glowing critters and songbirds

from hell: the week in weird

The back pages

Views

23 Comment

Global warming has rocketed

up the priority list for the public,

says Adam Corner

25 The columnist

Graham Lawton on why

2022 is critical for biodiversity

26 Aperture

Microscopic beauty of plankton

30 Letters

Maths is a marvel full

of universal truths

32 Culture

The best non-fiction books

coming out this year

News preview

8 Wiring the world

Electric supergrids could link

countries or even continents

16 Coronavirus evolution

The pandemic will continue

as the virus develops

more mutations

18 Blast-off

All the big space missions

to look forward to in 2022

36 Healthy options Our expectations about food shape how full we feel

GRANGER WOOTZ/GETTY IMAGES

Feature

7 The year ahead

16 What will the coronavirus do next?

8 The rise of electric supergrids

9 mRNA treatments for everything

12 Large Hadron Collider reboots

14 Crucial meeting to rescue nature

15 Quantum computing upgrade

18 Moon missions galore

On the

cover

Vol 253 No 3367

Cover image: Fabio Buonocore

36 The food paradox

Why a self-indulgent mindset

is key to diet success

46 Flaming clocks

Is telling the time

heating the universe?

51 Far-flung galaxies

41 The importance of bogs

54 Why do we have 10 fingers?

32 Books to read in 2022

“It’s a new

paradigm

for space

missions

and a real

renaissance

in lunar

robotics”

18 News preview

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