New Scientist - USA (2022-05-07)

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7 May 2022 | New Scientist | 1

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?

CYRIL RUOSO/MINDEN/NATUREPL.COM

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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