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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