New Scientist - UK (2022-06-11)

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Features


38 Lifting the fog
Covid-19 has thrust brain fog
into the limelight, giving us a new
understanding of the problem

42 Virunga power
Green electricity is reducing
conflict and aiding conservation
in the heart of Africa

47 Virtually famous
What impact do virtual
influencers have on followers?

51 The science of cooking
How to bake bread that keeps

53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick quiz
and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word
Why are slides only slippery
some of the time?

56 Feedback
Cockroaches and moon dust:
the week in weird

56 Twisteddoodles
for New Scientist
Picturing the lighter side of life

The back pages


Views


27 Comment
Mathematicians must embrace
AI, says Junaid Mubeen

28 The columnist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
on the physics of flight

30 Aperture
A photo competition
celebrating our environment

32 Letters
Privilege is more about
exclusivity than comfort

34 Culture
Should you use big data
to make better decisions?

News


14 Medical mystery
Child hepatitis outbreak
remains unexplained

15 AI mathematician
Software translates proofs
into code for easier solutions

20 Good as new
Liver too damaged for
use successfully repaired
and transplanted

42 Powerful help Hydroelectricity is helping to protect mountain gorillas

ANDY ROUSE/NATUREPL.COM

8 1.5 degrees in danger
Is the world’s most important
climate goal slipping away?

On the
cover

Vol 254 No 3390
Cover image: Adam Nickel

38 Are you battling
brain fog?
How to identify it, and
what to do about it

12 Lunar rising
NASA plots a return
to the moon

16  Benefits of strong family ties
22  Cancer-sniffing ants
12 Earliest domesticated chickens
36 The new Top Gun

“It doesn’t


seem like


humanity


is making


the necessary


changes


for the


1.5°C goal”


8 News


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