New Scientist 14Mar2020

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45 Ten years to save the world The loss of coral reefs is distressing, but

the climate crisis is a chance to push for positive environmental change

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Feature

12 News

“ I am face to face with a

freshly removed pig’s liver

sitting in a clear plastic tub”

On the

cover

The fight against

coronavirus

9 Lessons from the latest data

8 Death rate recalculated

7 Italy in lockdown

8 The US failure to test

9 Africa’s missing cases

23 A time for caution, not panic

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Cover image: Thomas Rohlfs

34 Running vs walking

The surprising truth about

which is best for you

14 A tiny dinosaur trapped in amber 19 Space lettuce

31 The rise and rise of TikTok 15 How neutrinos ruled the early universe

This week’s issue

News

Views

Features

12 Slimming livers

Fatty organs made suitable

for transplants

14 Forest fears

Tropical forests may stop

absorbing carbon dioxide

20 Lack of evidence

Programmes to stop

prisoners reoffending

have little basis in science

23 Comment

Understanding uncertainty will

help us deal with the covid-

outbreak, says Rachel McCloy

24 The columnist

Annalee Newitz on

the fall of Twitter

26 Letters

Face recognition’s faults

will bring death from afar

28 Aperture

A giant, half-built ship

30 Culture

Risky Talk, a podcast sifting

the flaky from the factual

51 Science of cooking

Bring out the two sides of garlic

52 Puzzles

Quick crossword, a river

challenge and the quiz

53 Feedback

Thou shalt not troll and no

bad apples: the week in weird

54 Almost the last word

Squirrel antics and what

eats foxes: readers respond

56 The Q&A

Urbasi Sinha on quantum

physics in a cornfield

34 Running vs walking

Do we need to run to boost our

health or can we get enough

exercise with a brisk walk?

40 Number crunch

The race to make data-gobbling

devices sustainable

45 Ten years to save the world

Christiana Figueres and Tom

Rivett-Carnac give us reasons to

be optimistic on climate change

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