New Scientist - USA (2022-04-16)

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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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