New Scientist - USA (2022-02-05)

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5 February 2022 | New Scientist | 1

This week’s issue


Features


38 Quantum perspective
Seeing reality from multiple
points of view at once reveals
our strange role in creating it

43 Christopher Jackson
on how geologists can switch
to helping fight climate change

46 Feel the beat
Learning to sense our bodies’
inner signals could be a path
to better mental health

51 Science of gardening
How to make a cloche for plants

53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick quiz
and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word
Do dogs really love us and
enjoy our company?

56 Feedback
A robot vacuum cleaner
goes on the lam

56 Twisteddoodles
for New Scientist
Picturing the lighter side of life

The back pages


Views


27 Comment
Coral gardening projects aren’t
enough, says Catherine Collins

28 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on the
robo car uprising

30 Aperture
A newly discovered colony
of gentoo penguins

32 Letters
Readers discuss if obesity is
about much more than food

34 Culture
Climate fiction is galvanising
readers into action

News


7 Spring comes early
Flowers are blooming a month
early due to climate change

10 Stopping Armageddon
We could save Earth from
a planet-killer comet

12 Another variant
A version of the coronavirus
called BA.2 is spreading
rapidly – should we worry?

8 Panda problems Cubs conceived artificially risk being rejected

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News


19 First Denisovan skull?
Mystery of new Chinese fossil

46 Sensing yourself
How interoception holds
the key to mental health

43 Geology of the future
Why ancient rocks could
save the planet

On the
cover

Vol 253 No 3372
Cover image: Stephan Schmitz

38 Do we create
space-time?
A new way to think
about the fabric of reality

9 A gene for longevity
Lucky mutation slows
the process of ageing

20 Selfish bees
16 Gravitational wave echoes
23 Restoring a river
34 The rise of climate fiction

“ We need to


be aware of


geological


history and


how it could


replay in


our time”


43 Features


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