16 April 2022 | New Scientist | 1
This week’s issue
Features
38 The size of infinity
Mathematicians might have
finally cracked a problem that
has baffled them for 150 years
44 Better by design
How your interior decor choices
can boost your mental health
48 30 by 30
Can the plan to set aside 30 per
cent of global land and sea for
nature by 2030 work?
52 The science of cooking
How to cook with ginger
53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick quiz
and logic puzzle
54 Almost the last word
Does food cooked in a microwave
taste inferior?
56 Feedback
Quantum batteries and hunting
exopets: the week in weird
56 Twisteddoodles
for New Scientist
Picturing the lighter side of life
The back pages
Views
27 Comment
We will never know dinosaurs’
every secret, says David Hone
28 The columnist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on
why her focus is dark matter
30 Aperture
Incredible shots of pufferfish,
toxic waste and more
32 Letters
Global catastrophes also
threaten to destroy hope
34 Culture
A memoir about finding love
and the science behind it
News
9 Ancient computer
Researchers find “Day Zero”
for the Antikythera mechanism
10 Mobile war
Russia and Ukraine are
both weaponising phones
to track troops
17 Lateral thinking
How covid-19 rapid antigen
tests really work
15 Taking off Amazon is gobbling up the space launch market
AMAZON
News
8 Has the W boson
broken physics?
48 Bold plan to set aside
third of the planet for nature
44 Interior design that
boosts the body and mind
On the
cover
Vol 254 No 3382
Cover image: Francesco Bongiorni
38 How big is infinity?
A new answer to the
largest question of all
18 Chess with aliens
14 Helsinki’s eco-neighbourhood
54 Does microwaved food
taste worse?
34 The science of love
“Infinity’s
wobbling
tower
suggests the
foundations
of maths are
unstable”
38 Features
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