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This week’s issue
Features
38 A seismic mystery
Deep inside Earth are two
gigantic anomalies of unknown
origin – what are they?
42 Sex and gender
Frans de Waal reveals what apes
can teach us about ourselves
46 Obesity blockers
A new drug could help treat
obesity and even prevent the
condition in the first place
51 Citizen science
Help find new planets by combing
through NASA observations
53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick
quiz and logic puzzle
54 Almost the last word
Is it possible to fly a spaceship
through a gas giant?
55 Tom Gauld for New Scientist
A cartoonist’s take on the world
56 Feedback
How to date in the metaverse:
the week in weird
The back pages
Views
27 Comment
Banning ads for high-carbon
products would be a win for
legislators, says Andrew Simms
28 The columnist
Keep your garden green,
says Beronda L. Montgomery
30 Aperture
Artworks from an exhibition
exploring visions of water
32 Letters
The endless question of infinity
34 Culture
A hunt for people who
claimed to have premonitions
News
9 Childhood hepatitis
An adenovirus is the prime
suspect in mystery outbreak
10 Life on Mars
Meteorites may preserve
evidence of ancient microbes
15 Aviation fuel
EU plan to make flights
sustainable could increase
greenhouse gas emissions
42 Wild revelations What can other apes teach us about gender?
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Features
14 W boson latest
12 How the moon
influences Earth’s climate
46 New hope for
anti-obesity drugs
42 What other apes
can teach us about
gender and sex
On the
cover
Vol 254 No 3385
Cover image: Stuart McCreath
38 Earth blobs
There’s something weird
going on inside our planet
8 Restoring Chernobyl
24 Genetic cause for lupus
12 Extinct sea swan
54 Could a spaceship
fly through Jupiter?
“Trying
to catch a
rocket as
it falls back
to Earth is
no easy feat”
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