New Scientist - USA (2021-12-11)

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This week’s issue

Features

36 Launch of a time machine

The world’s most powerful

telescope will help us see further

into the past than ever before

42 The Amazon’s last chance

The decline of the great

rainforest could be irreversible

within five years

46 Steven Pinker interview

Why we need to rethink what it

means to be rational

51 Science of cooking

Gingerbread house perfection

53 Puzzles

Try our crossword, quick

quiz and logic puzzle

54 Almost the last word

If we killed all the mosquitoes,

what would happen?

55 Tom Gauld for

New Scientist

A cartoonist’s take on the world

56 Feedback

The alluring scent of

extinct humans

The back pages

Views

25 Comment

Alexandra Martiniuk and

Joseph Freeman on a new

push to tackle cyberbullying

26 The columnist

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

laments science funding cuts

28 Letters

At last, human kindness got

its moment in the spotlight

30 Aperture

Ghost fungi in Australia

32 Culture

Riz Ahmed fights parasitic

aliens in Encounter

News

9 From cows to carbon

Project aims to get farmers to

grow trees instead of livestock

10 Anti-troll law

Australian bill could see

government critics sued

14 Child vaccinations

Why has the UK been so slow

to offer covid-19 jabs to the

under-16s?

42 Going, going... The mighty Amazon could soon be beyond rescue

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Features

46 How to be rational

Steven Pinker on embracing

your smartest self

42 Five years to

save the Amazon

What can be done to

pull things back?

8 A different kind of GPS

Find your way by cosmic rays

On the

cover

Vol 252 No 3364

Cover image: Shutterstock/Triff

36 A new eye on

the universe

How the world’s most

powerful telescope is

about to rewrite the

story of the cosmos

7 Next wave

What can we expect

from omicron? 12 Solar outbursts

19 A history of short people

12 Mystery hominin footprints

16 AI invents maths

“The main

reason that

omicron is

spreading so

fast appears

to be that it

is excellent at

evading prior

immunity”

7 News

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