5 March 2022 | New Scientist | 1
This week’s issue
Features
38 Chemistry to the rescue
Seven innovations to change the
world, from infinitely recyclable
materials to artificial life
44 How to lose yourself
Transcendent experiences
seem to be good for us. Here
is how to enjoy the benefits
48 The slug hunter
Ecologist Rory Mc Donnell on
evidence-based slug control
51 Science of gardening
How to protect your strawberries
53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick
quiz and logic puzzle
54 Almost the last word
Why do only some materials
glow under UV light?
56 Feedback
Schrödinger’s trash and a
mummy’s voice: the week in weird
56 Twisteddoodles
for New Scientist
Picturing the lighter side of life
The back pages
Views
27 Comment
We must document forests to
save them, says Jingjing Liang
28 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on a shady
new phase of the internet
30 Aperture
Exploring the floating
biospheres of Nemo’s Garden
32 Letters
Fossil fuels seemed like
a good innovation once
34 Culture
How human intelligence
has the edge on AIs
News
14 The bitcoin republic
Inside El Salvador’s
cryptocurrency experiment
20 Moon crash
No one will admit to
owning a rocket that is
about to hit the moon
21 Sad boomers
The baby boomer generation
is the most unhappy in the UK
12 Irreversible Some effects of climate change are now unavoidable
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News
Ukraine invasion
10 Cyberwar and
disinformation
7 The nuclear question
9 A turning point
for fossil fuels?
On the
cover
Vol 253 No 3376
Cover image: Graham Carter
38 Chemistry to
save the world
Seven innovations
that could transform
our planet
19 The family tree of everyone
12 New climate report
16 Was T. rex three species?
48 The world’s top slug expert
“We collected
18,000 slugs
over two
days. That
was really
a moment
for us”
48 Features
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