15 January 2022 | New Scientist | 1
This week’s issue
Features
38 A new dawn for physics?
Hints from a particle collider
are pointing ever more clearly
towards a new force of nature
42 An American catastrophe
Why did cat-like animals
vanish from North America
for millions of years?
46 Hack your personality
An evidence-based guide
to changing your character
51 Citizen science
Spot some shooting stars
53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick quiz
and logic puzzle
54 Almost the last word
The universe is expanding,
but into what?
55 Tom Gauld for
New Scientist
A cartoonist’s take on the world
56 Feedback
Boozing hamsters and
nominative determinism
The back pages
Views
27 Comment
Sign languages could bring
cognitive benefits for all who
learn them, says Bencie Woll
28 The columnist
Simple rituals can boost your
brain, says David Robson
30 Aperture
Inside the LEGEND experiment
32 Letters
For a really good laugh,
try tickling a flying fox
34 Culture
Why having fun is key to
a happy and healthy life
News
10 Message in a bottle
Outsider wins competition
to trace ocean drift
12 Runaway black hole
Colliding cosmic behemoths
produce incredible speed
20 UK fuel bills
What can the government
do to avoid a household
energy crisis?
7 Heart to heart What does a pig heart transplant mean for organ donation?
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
News
7 First pig to human
heart transplant
8 The science of omicron
46 How to change your
personality
42 The prehistoric cat gap
On the
cover
Vol 253 No 3369
Cover image: Marcus Marritt
38 A new dawn
for physics?
The Large Hadron Collider
finds strongest hints yet of a
game-changing new particle
14 Age of the phage
The good viruses
protecting your food
12 Runaway black hole
19 Spider fossils
16 The sex lives of dolphins
10 The first human hunters
“People can
change
pretty
dramatically
pretty fast”
46 Features
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