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New Scientist

May 29 2021
Magazine

New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world. New Scientist employs and commissions the best writers in their fields from all over the world. Our editorial team provide cutting-edge news, award-winning features and reports, written in concise and clear language that puts discoveries and advances in the context of everyday life today and in the future.

Elsewhere on New Scientist

A quantum dilemma • An unhackable quantum internet comes with tough privacy questions

New Scientist

Call for joint vaccine push • The World Health Organization is urging countries to support a drive to vaccinate 30 per cent of the world this year, reports Michael Le Page

Vaccines vs variants • New research on vaccine efficacy suggests it might be harder than we thought to stop the coronavirus’s spread, reports Michael Le Page

Is it safe to breastfeed my baby after a coronavirus vaccine? • A lack of information about the impact of covid-19 vaccines on breastfed babies leaves new parents wondering what to do, says Penny Sarchet

How evolution makes new organs • The gene activity that formed a beetle’s toxic cocktail may reveal how organs arise

Tiny self-propelled submarines could help clean up waste

How do we solve the problem of ransomware? • The US oil pipeline that shut down after a cyberattack is just the latest victim in a growing wave, reports Matthew Sparkes

Lost vision partially restored by optogenetics

Neutron star surfaces are incredibly smooth

AI shoots down mathematical ideas • Humans now have help in searching for examples that disprove conjectures

The biggest drawing ever made may be a spiral found in India

Birds know to hide from predators before they hatch

More people are going to space, but who will get to fly? • Civilians in orbit will generally have to be rich, young and physically fit, says Leah Crane

The hydrogen games • Japan plans to use the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games to tout the benefits of a hydrogen society. Alice Klein reports

The main competitors

Ants may hold the key to an eco-friendly spider repellent

World misses ocean conservation target

Robotic extra thumb is controlled by toes

Really brief

AI uses body cam to assess calorie intake

Dangerous sun activity could hamper return to the moon

True devastation of Amazon blaze

The power of fusion • Archaeology and genetics may seem worlds apart, but they are combining to produce astonishing insights, says Alice Roberts

Big bangs in the universe • The explosions of supernovae are so powerful they can be seen with the naked eye. The physics behind them is harder to uncover, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Your letters

Seed shots

All about the menopause • There is a menopause information vacuum. A new book by gynaecologist Jen Gunter is a terrific place to start, says Helen Thomson

Save our sun! • In the new sci-fi novel from The Martian author Andy Weir, an unlikely duo battle the decline of our star, says Clare Wilson

Don’t miss

Breaking out of prison in 2143 • Intergalactic is packed with plot. As a group escapes detention by commandeering a spaceship, we begin to uncover more about the eco-fascist regime back home, finds Bethan Ackerley

The dawn of the quantum internet • The race is on to create a super secure online space that channels the eerie power of the quantum world. Stephen Battersby logs on

Why can I never be bothered? • Some people seem to possess unlimited motivation, others not so much. Self-confessed slacker Amelia Tait wants answers

Mind hacks to maximise motivation

Companion coronaviruses •...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 60 Publisher: New Scientist Ltd Edition: May 29 2021

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New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world. New Scientist employs and commissions the best writers in their fields from all over the world. Our editorial team provide cutting-edge news, award-winning features and reports, written in concise and clear language that puts discoveries and advances in the context of everyday life today and in the future.

Elsewhere on New Scientist

A quantum dilemma • An unhackable quantum internet comes with tough privacy questions

New Scientist

Call for joint vaccine push • The World Health Organization is urging countries to support a drive to vaccinate 30 per cent of the world this year, reports Michael Le Page

Vaccines vs variants • New research on vaccine efficacy suggests it might be harder than we thought to stop the coronavirus’s spread, reports Michael Le Page

Is it safe to breastfeed my baby after a coronavirus vaccine? • A lack of information about the impact of covid-19 vaccines on breastfed babies leaves new parents wondering what to do, says Penny Sarchet

How evolution makes new organs • The gene activity that formed a beetle’s toxic cocktail may reveal how organs arise

Tiny self-propelled submarines could help clean up waste

How do we solve the problem of ransomware? • The US oil pipeline that shut down after a cyberattack is just the latest victim in a growing wave, reports Matthew Sparkes

Lost vision partially restored by optogenetics

Neutron star surfaces are incredibly smooth

AI shoots down mathematical ideas • Humans now have help in searching for examples that disprove conjectures

The biggest drawing ever made may be a spiral found in India

Birds know to hide from predators before they hatch

More people are going to space, but who will get to fly? • Civilians in orbit will generally have to be rich, young and physically fit, says Leah Crane

The hydrogen games • Japan plans to use the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games to tout the benefits of a hydrogen society. Alice Klein reports

The main competitors

Ants may hold the key to an eco-friendly spider repellent

World misses ocean conservation target

Robotic extra thumb is controlled by toes

Really brief

AI uses body cam to assess calorie intake

Dangerous sun activity could hamper return to the moon

True devastation of Amazon blaze

The power of fusion • Archaeology and genetics may seem worlds apart, but they are combining to produce astonishing insights, says Alice Roberts

Big bangs in the universe • The explosions of supernovae are so powerful they can be seen with the naked eye. The physics behind them is harder to uncover, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Your letters

Seed shots

All about the menopause • There is a menopause information vacuum. A new book by gynaecologist Jen Gunter is a terrific place to start, says Helen Thomson

Save our sun! • In the new sci-fi novel from The Martian author Andy Weir, an unlikely duo battle the decline of our star, says Clare Wilson

Don’t miss

Breaking out of prison in 2143 • Intergalactic is packed with plot. As a group escapes detention by commandeering a spaceship, we begin to uncover more about the eco-fascist regime back home, finds Bethan Ackerley

The dawn of the quantum internet • The race is on to create a super secure online space that channels the eerie power of the quantum world. Stephen Battersby logs on

Why can I never be bothered? • Some people seem to possess unlimited motivation, others not so much. Self-confessed slacker Amelia Tait wants answers

Mind hacks to maximise motivation

Companion coronaviruses •...


Expand title description text