New Scientist - USA (2022-02-19)

19 February 2022 | New Scientist | 1

This week’s issue

Features

38 Brain-inspired AI

Inside the push to make

artificial intelligence that

thinks like humans

42 Sitting comfortably?

Why it is time to rewrite the rules

regarding perfect posture

46 Pathogens on ice

Are potentially deadly microbes

being released as ice and frozen

soil melts?

51 Science of cooking

How to deep-fry ice cream

53 Puzzles

Try our crossword, quick quiz

and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word

What caused a rainless,

red-only “rainbow”?

56 Feedback

Bed-based dieting and a sperm

database: the week in weird

56 Twisteddoodles

for New Scientist

Picturing the lighter side of life

The back pages

Views

27 Comment

James Ball on backlashes

to technological progress

28 The columnist

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

celebrates weather satellites

30 Aperture

Polar bears take over

abandoned Russian buildings

32 Letters

Observations on the new

quantum perspective

34 Culture

Why we need a Blue New Deal

to protect our oceans

News

8 Zero child cancer

Australia’s plan to prevent

children dying from cancer

10 Going slow

Lichens can’t evolve

quickly enough to adapt

to climate change

12 Anti anti-vax

Facebook’s efforts to combat

covid-19 misinformation

20 Gas be gone Innovative ways to remove carbon from the air

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News

16 Benefits of yoga

Why a weekly session

could protect your heart

19 Fusion breakthrough

New test gives best hope

yet of unlimited energy

46 Pathogens on ice

The viral threats hiding in

our thawing permafrost

On the

cover

Vol 253 No 3374

Cover image: Julia Lee

38 Making a mind

How to create an

artificial intelligence that

really thinks like us

42 Don’t sit up straight

Why the rules of good

posture are being rewritten

9 Cosmic nuclear explosion

12 Iceland’s cold blob

22 White dwarf planet

54 Why do babies make

so much noise?

“ A lot of what

we think

of as good

posture is

about what

is deemed

elegant and

attractive”

42 Features

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