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New Scientist

Mar 18 2023
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

Decision time • The genomic healthcare revolution is arriving – what do we want it to look like?

New Scientist

Walking on water

Sick babies saved by sequencing • A rapid, whole-genome sequencing trial in Australia has helped diagnose and treat hundreds of critically ill children with rare genetic conditions, reports Alice Klein

‘Red matter’ superconductor could transform electronics – if it works

Skyscrapers go green • The world’s largest example of an office building constructed to a “passive house” design is soon to open in Boston, Massachusetts, writes Jeremy Hsu

Analysis Cardiovascular disease • Have we overlooked a key sign of an unhealthy heart? Inflammation may be just as important as cholesterol in causing heart attacks and strokes, and treating it could lead to new tools for prevention, reports Clare Wilson

Soil bacteria enzyme generates electricity from hydrogen in the air

Brown widow spiders stalk and kill black widows

Field notes Berkshire, UK • Making trees old before their time The decayed trunks of ancient trees are a vital habitat in decline. With the help of fungi, we might be able to boost the supply of veteran trees, finds Graham Lawton

Monkeys cast doubt on ancient human ‘tools’

Mice born using eggs derived from male cells for the first time

Disgust and fear are linked to a more acidic stomach

We could store carbon as baking soda in the ocean

Covid-19 vaccine in pregnancy helps protect newborns

Orca seen with pilot whale calf may be a case of interspecies foster parenting

Surprising ‘animal’ fossil may actually be a bit of seaweed

A costly cure for sickle cell disease • A gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease could be approved later this year, but its predicted high cost will make it inaccessible to most people, finds Michael Le Page

How bushfire smoke affected ozone layer

Hormone injection helps mice sober up

Puzzle-solving bumblebees pass on their knowledge

Really brief

Digital playtime • Parents often dismiss video gaming as worthless, but demonising the things our children love is counterproductive, says Naomi Fisher

This changes everything • The chatbotpocalypse? AI entrepreneurs like to claim products such as chatbots could become conscious at any minute. We need to resist this dystopian marketing hype, says Annalee Newitz

Sacred river

Your letters

Taking the longer view • Why do we have clocks? An ambitious book deconstructs their origins and argues for more nature-based measures, finds Jason Arunn Murugesu

Finding AI friends and lovers

Honouring the dead • This harrowing account of exposing genocide shows what forensic anthropology can achieve, says Michael Marshall

Don’t miss

The TV column • Natural wonders Wild Isles, a new BBC documentary, has spent a Planet Earth-sized budget on the UK and Ireland. Some of its footage even managed to surprise the show’s host, David Attenborough, despite all his experience, finds Bethan Ackerley

Messages from the Stone Age • Hand stencils made by Palaeolithic humans are more than mere doodles. What are they trying to tell us, asks Alison George

Signs of the times

Whose hands?

Is gravity quantum? • Physicist Jonathan Oppenheim has made a...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 60 Publisher: New Scientist Ltd Edition: Mar 18 2023

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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

Decision time • The genomic healthcare revolution is arriving – what do we want it to look like?

New Scientist

Walking on water

Sick babies saved by sequencing • A rapid, whole-genome sequencing trial in Australia has helped diagnose and treat hundreds of critically ill children with rare genetic conditions, reports Alice Klein

‘Red matter’ superconductor could transform electronics – if it works

Skyscrapers go green • The world’s largest example of an office building constructed to a “passive house” design is soon to open in Boston, Massachusetts, writes Jeremy Hsu

Analysis Cardiovascular disease • Have we overlooked a key sign of an unhealthy heart? Inflammation may be just as important as cholesterol in causing heart attacks and strokes, and treating it could lead to new tools for prevention, reports Clare Wilson

Soil bacteria enzyme generates electricity from hydrogen in the air

Brown widow spiders stalk and kill black widows

Field notes Berkshire, UK • Making trees old before their time The decayed trunks of ancient trees are a vital habitat in decline. With the help of fungi, we might be able to boost the supply of veteran trees, finds Graham Lawton

Monkeys cast doubt on ancient human ‘tools’

Mice born using eggs derived from male cells for the first time

Disgust and fear are linked to a more acidic stomach

We could store carbon as baking soda in the ocean

Covid-19 vaccine in pregnancy helps protect newborns

Orca seen with pilot whale calf may be a case of interspecies foster parenting

Surprising ‘animal’ fossil may actually be a bit of seaweed

A costly cure for sickle cell disease • A gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease could be approved later this year, but its predicted high cost will make it inaccessible to most people, finds Michael Le Page

How bushfire smoke affected ozone layer

Hormone injection helps mice sober up

Puzzle-solving bumblebees pass on their knowledge

Really brief

Digital playtime • Parents often dismiss video gaming as worthless, but demonising the things our children love is counterproductive, says Naomi Fisher

This changes everything • The chatbotpocalypse? AI entrepreneurs like to claim products such as chatbots could become conscious at any minute. We need to resist this dystopian marketing hype, says Annalee Newitz

Sacred river

Your letters

Taking the longer view • Why do we have clocks? An ambitious book deconstructs their origins and argues for more nature-based measures, finds Jason Arunn Murugesu

Finding AI friends and lovers

Honouring the dead • This harrowing account of exposing genocide shows what forensic anthropology can achieve, says Michael Marshall

Don’t miss

The TV column • Natural wonders Wild Isles, a new BBC documentary, has spent a Planet Earth-sized budget on the UK and Ireland. Some of its footage even managed to surprise the show’s host, David Attenborough, despite all his experience, finds Bethan Ackerley

Messages from the Stone Age • Hand stencils made by Palaeolithic humans are more than mere doodles. What are they trying to tell us, asks Alison George

Signs of the times

Whose hands?

Is gravity quantum? • Physicist Jonathan Oppenheim has made a...


Expand title description text