29 January 2022 | New Scientist | 1
This week’s issue
Features
38 Taming migraine
Migraine and its causes have
long been a mystery. Now we
are starting to get answers
44 The world against us
The environment is making
us sick. But exactly how is
hard to understand
48 David Chalmers interview
The philosopher on what virtual
reality tells us about real reality
52 Stargazing at home
What to look for in the northern
and southern hemispheres
53 Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick
quiz and logic puzzle
54 Almost the last word
What is the best tech to preserve
childhood memories?
55 Tom Gauld for New Scientist
A cartoonist’s take on the world
56 Feedback
Fighting covid-19 with vibrations
and bad news on booze
The back pages
Views
27 Comment
Jonathan R. Goodman on the
evolution of communication
28 The columnist
Graham Lawton on the plume
of trash choking Earth
30 Aperture
A multicoloured lithium
landscape in Chile
32 Letters
The upsides of being
disagreeable and introverted
34 Culture
Why we must stay alert
to the threat of eugenics
News
8 Covid in Western Australia
Can the state continue to keep
the coronavirus at bay?
9 Pig kidney transplant
Gene-edited organs survive
transfer to brain-dead person
16 AI artist
Algorithm generates
images from text through
creative destruction
14 Anthropocene Was a new Earth epoch born along the Baltic Sea?
SHUTTERSTOCK/MARIIA KAMENSKA
News
10 Cosmic confusion
We officially don’t know how
fast the universe is expanding
19 Covid brain fog
What causes it and
can it be reversed?
48 Into the metaverse
Why virtual worlds are
as real as any other
On the
cover
Vol 253 No 3371
Cover image: Vicki Turner
(originally commissioned by
Prevention magazine)
38 The migraine mind
A new understanding
of the condition – and
how to treat it
44 Know your exposome
Your lifetime risk from
harmful chemicals
16 Saliva sharing
35 History of timekeeping
14 Defining Earth’s new epoch
27 Evolution of lies
“For most
diseases,
exposure
to pollution
plays a far
greater part
in mortality
than
genetics”
44 Features
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