New Scientist - USA (2022-04-02)

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2 April 2022 | New Scientist | 1

This week’s issue


Features


38 Cosmic consciousness
Physicists are radically
rethinking the relationship
between matter and mind

43 Animals from space
The internet of animals could
predict natural disasters, says
Martin Wikelski

46 Rethinking trauma
What counts as traumatic? The
answer is proving controversial

51 Science of gardening
How to create a bee hotel

53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick quiz
and logic challenge

54 Almost the last word
Could we see a really distant
ship if the world were flat?

56 Feedback
Cryptic times for ex-football
stars: the week in weird

56 Twisteddoodles
for New Scientist
Picturing the lighter side of life

The back pages


Views


27 Comment
Zero covid was the best route
to take, says Michael Marshall

28 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on what
tech can do for bird studies

30 Aperture
Night-time photos show the
waste of “vampire power”

32 Letters
Russia’s nuclear weapon
threats just don’t ring true

34 Culture
An unsettling film offers a
cow’s-eye view of the world

News


7 Coral bleaching
The Great Barrier Reef
has turned white again

8 Bronze Age evolution
DNA evidence shows ancient
Britons adapted to low sunlight

10 Covid-19 vaccines
The risk of rare side
effects on the heart
is back in the spotlight

35 After the fire How should we define regeneration?

MARK HIGGINS/GETTY IMAGES

Culture


16 What is a planet?
46 When traumatic
doesn’t equal trauma
43 Tracking animals
from space
20 How to green your home
14 Gene-therapy gel

On the
cover

Vol 254 No 3380
Cover image: Pablo Hurtado
de Mendoza

38 Is consciousness
fundamental to
the cosmos?
Rethinking the relationship
between mind and matter 30 Vampire appliances
34 A cow’s-eye view of the world
12 When snakes lost their legs
18 Banana-peeling robot

“Boobies in


the Indo-


Pacific will


tell you how


strong the


next El Niño


will be”


43 Features


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