New Scientist - USA (2022-03-05)

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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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