New Scientist - USA (2020-03-07)

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16 News

“ It’s the first bacteria ever

shown to change DNA

and be carcinogenic”

On the

cover

15 Cosmic origins

Did our galaxy’s black

hole give birth to life?

12 Quantum surprise

Unlikely contender storms into

quantum computing race

14 Denisovan technology

Huge find reveals how

extinct humans lived

Vol 245 No 3272

Cover image: Pasieka/Getty Images

Data points from Johns Hopkins University, 3 March 2020

5 Pandemic

Coronavirus has gone

global. Here’s what

you need to know

14 Our (tiny) new moon

It’s about the size of

a small car, and it’s

here until April

34 What space really looks like 19 Fluorescent frogs

28 The pink manta ray 51  Science of sourdough 30 Super ants

This week’s issue

News

Views

Features

13 Netflix and chill

Binge-watching TV isn’t as bad

for the climate as we thought

16 Gut feeling

E.coli strain has been

linked to bowel cancer

20 Tax the tech giants

Inside the global debate

over making tech firms

pay their fair share

23 Comment

China’s wildlife market ban

is a welcome move, says

Adam Vaughan

24 The columnist

Graham Lawton on giving

up his much-loved car

26 Letters

There’s a very fine line

between life and death

28 Aperture

The pink manta ray lurking

in the Great Barrier Reef

30 Culture

A superpowered desert ant

51 Science of cooking

How to make sourdough bread

52 Puzzles

Cryptic crossword, a snow

globe question and the quiz

53 Feedback

Plane speaking and unhumble

pie: the week in weird

54 Almost the last word

Atomic structure and relative

warmth: readers respond

56 The Q&A

Siena Castellon,

neurodiversity advocate

34 What space looks like

The art and science of taking

cosmological images

41 Undercover

with the alt-right

Julia Ebner reveals how

online extremists hijack

social media to spread hate

44 Cancer treatment evolves

The disease’s adaptability may

be key to bringing it down

The back pages

Coronavirus: What’s next?

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