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Discovery tour

In Darwin’s footsteps Spot blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos

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Discovery tour

Darwin’s Galapagos

The trip of a lifetime to the

islands made famous by the

father of evolution, Charles

Darwin. Led by conservationist

Jo Ruxton, the trip begins with a

visit to Quito in Ecuador, followed

by eight days exploring the

Galapagos aboard a chartered

yacht. Spot sea lions, marine

iguanas and blue-footed

boobies. The tour starts

on 27 March – get more details

and book your place online.

newscientist.com/tours

Academy

Consciousness:

The deepest mystery

For more than 2000 years,

great minds have struggled

to understand how the human

brain creates a subjective

experience. Now we are inching

towards an explanation, which

makes this the perfect time to

take our neuroscience course

on consciousness. Learn at your

own pace with our expert-led

course. Find out more online.

academy.newscientist.com

Weekly

The UK is being told to “learn

to live with covid”, but what

does that mean? The team

discusses the measures

required to prevent wave

upon wave of covid-19.

There is also a new way of

building quantum computers

using neutral atoms. Plus, we

look at the pros and cons of

phages, an alternative treatment

for bacterial infections.

newscientist.com/nspod

Launchpad

Get reporter Leah Crane’s

must-read newsletter about

all things space delivered free

to your inbox each week. In the

latest edition, she looks at data

from a sky survey that might

reveal an exomoon, a moon

orbiting a planet in another

star system. More work will

be needed to confirm the result.

newscientist.com/

launchpad

Video

A deep, pristine reef

Watch underwater footage of a

spectacular reef of rose-shaped

corals, discovered off the coast

of Tahiti (see also page 12). It is

unusual for a number of reasons.

For one, it is more than 3 kilometres

long. For another, it is 70 metres

underwater in places, far deeper

than your average coral reef. Don’t

forget to subscribe to our channel

for more awesome discoveries.

youtube.com/newscientist

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Exomoon rising Signs of a huge moon in a distant star system

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Essential guide

How did the universe begin? What

is it made of? Do black holes exist?

Albert Einstein’s space and

time-warping theories of reality

have revolutionised our view of the

cosmos over the past century. Find

out how in the 10th New Scientist

Essential Guide, available now.

shop.newscientist.com

“ No exomoon

candidate

has been

verified as

yet, so a new

possibility

is exciting”

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