New Scientist - USA (2022-01-15)

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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”


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