6 November 2021 | New Scientist | 3This week’s issue
Features
38 Is reality real?
Experiments promise to show
whether things really exist when
we’re not looking42 Deciphering dumbo
A dictionary of elephant
behaviour gives extraordinary
insights into the animals’ minds46 Rethinking Alzheimer’s
A new way to seek its cause
could yield novel treatments52 Science of gardening
How to banish tomato blight53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick quiz
and logic puzzle54 Almost the last word
Readers try to identify a strange
marine object56 Feedback
How natural disasters affect
relationships: the week in weird56 Twisteddoodles
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Picturing the lighter side of lifeThe back pages
Views
27 Comment
What should Tesla do with its
money, asks Rowan Hooper28 The columnist
James Wong looks at whether
fertiliser use is really rising30 Aperture
Bird portraits show their
character and intricate grace32 Letters
How New Scientist broke
the news of feathered dinos34 Culture
An ecologist explores how
we have altered our planetNews
12 Enter the metaverse
Why has Facebook changed
its name to Meta?14 Toddler lab
Studying infants as they
play reveals how they think18 Dangerous drams
Scotch whisky’s reliance
on peat means it has
a climate problem10 COP26 India’s 2070 net-zero pledge is a significant moveMANISH RAJPUT/SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGESNews
46 Alzheimer’s rethink
A new approach offers
treatment hope10 COP26 analysis
Why India’s 2070 net zero
goal is good news13 Jeff Bezos’s orbital outpost
Could it really replace the
International Space Station?On the
coverVol 252 No 3359
Cover image: denbagoeskholil/
Shutterstock/ Julia Lee38 Does anything exist
when we’re not looking?
Closing in on the true nature
of quantum reality20 Interstellar tardigrades
27 What next for Tesla?
42 How to speak elephant
54 Where do galaxies begin
and end?“Alzheimer’s,
as currently
understood,
is not really
a single
disease”
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