New Scientist - USA (2022-01-08)

8 January 2022 | New Scientist | 3

This week’s issue

Features

34 Booze-free booze Low-alcohol tipples are all the rage, but are they good for us?

39 Enter the metaverse What does Facebook’s plan to build an immersive virtual world mean for our shared future?

44 Power of paradoxes Grasping the role of human intuition in logic puzzles can help us all think more clearly

51 Science of gardening Perfect purple sprouting broccoli

53 Puzzles Try our crossword, quick quiz and logic challenge

54 Almost the last word Can house spiders survive when you put them in your garden?

56 Feedback Nail art in the metaverse; the week’s weirdest stories

56 Twisteddoodles for New Scientist Picturing the lighter side of life

The back pages

Views

21 Comment We may have got obesity all wrong, says David S. Ludwig

22 The columnist Annalee Newitz on bonding with a robot

24 Aperture An electrifying image of a sea star as it spawns

26 Letters Let’s pull out all the stops to save the Amazon

28 Culture In Memoria, a woman hears noises no one else can detect

News

16 ‘Impossible’ plant Grafting technique could revolutionise farming

16 Dino embryo Fossilised egg provides a rare glimpse of an unhatched dinosaur

18 Follow the money How UK police are tackling crimes involving bitcoin

29 Root and branch David Attenborough tackles flora in The Green Planet

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Culture

44 The power of paradox What we learn when intuition and logic collide

39 Welcome to the metaverse The hype versus the reality

On the cover

Vol 253 No 3368 Cover image: Pete Reynolds

10 Special report Covid: What’s next

54 Can spiders navigate back to your house? 34 Booze-free booze 29 The Green Planet, reviewed 9 Space telescope latest 18 UK police seize bitcoin

“ Paradoxes

don’t exist

in a vacuum,

they are

puzzles that

take shape in

our minds”

44 Features

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