New Scientist - USA (2022-01-22)

22 January 2022 | New Scientist | 1

This week’s issue

Features

38 The pursuit of happiness

The “happiness revolution”

emerging from scientific

research suggests we can all

do things to boost societies’

well-being – and our own

48 Mission to the ice giants

A voyage to Neptune and

Uranus is the essential next

step in solar system exploration,

says planetary scientist

Leigh Fletcher

51 The science of cooking

How to perfectly pickle cucumbers

53 Puzzles

Try our crossword, quick

quiz and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word

Why do you rarely see dead

birds, given their short lives?

56 Feedback

A new contender for the

world’s most annoying bird

56 Twisteddoodles

for New Scientist

Picturing the lighter side of life

The back pages

Views

23 Comment

We need more advice on toxic

chemicals, says Anna Turns

24 The columnist

Fusion is a mystery, says

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

26 Letters

Another way to solve

pesky paradoxes?

28 Aperture

Objects that reveal European

space ambitions

32 Culture columnist

Simon Ings rolls back the years

to revel in old-school sci-fi

News

8 A different field

Can rain-powered electric

fields enhance plant growth?

10 Green energy milestone

How green levies really affect

the UK’s energy crisis

16 Ticking time bomb

Much-delayed action

on a dangerous

bomb-laden shipwreck

12 Living with covid What will the end of the pandemic be like?

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News

23 Can you live free

of toxic chemicals?

48 Mission to Neptune

9 A new kind of

quantum computing

17 Hints of a huge exomoon

18 How letters get

their shapes

On the

cover

Vol 253 No 3370

Cover image: Andrea Ucini

38 The pursuit

of happiness

What it means to be happy...

and how to get better at it

12 Living with covid

How and when will

the pandemic end?

10 Edible straws

30 Station Eleven, reviewed

16 Doomsday shipwreck

8 Robot powered by algae

“ A study of

Norwegian

twins

suggests

30 per cent

of people’s

satisfaction

with life is

inherited”

38 Features

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