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New Scientist Australian Edition

Jan 22 2022
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

Pursuing happiness • Science is increasingly telling us where the founts of our well-being lie

New Scientist Australian Edition

Tongan volcano erupts • The huge explosion of an underwater volcano in the Pacific archipelago was a once-in-a-millennium event, reports Alice Klein

Can electric fields help plants grow? • Claims that a wind-powered device can boost crop yield don’t convince other scientists

A swimming robot powered by photosynthesis

Portable laser scanner creates 3D images in colour

First fully programmable atom-based quantum computer

Analysis Energy bills • Renewable subsidies part of the solution, not the problem A recent milestone shows how the UK’s green levies can help avoid energy price shocks, says Adam Vaughan

Edible straws made by bacteria beat plastic and paper

How can we end the pandemic? • Two years since it emerged, the coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. We can “live with covid”, but how we choose to do that will have huge consequences, reports Michael Marshall

What covid-19 becoming ‘endemic’ really means

Analysis SS Richard Montgomery • ‘Doomsday’ shipwreck to be made safer Almost 20 years after a New Scientist investigation exposed the risk, the UK government is finally acting, reports Mick Hamer

Virus’s link to MS is stronger than we thought

Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet

Extreme memory test helps select random numbers

Saturn’s small moon Mimas may have an impossible ocean

A West African script shows how letters evolve over time

Vast icefish breeding ground discovered in frigid waters

Giant bubble around solar system charted

Organics in martian rock not made by life

Really brief

Super-Earths have life-friendly shields

Electric implants seem able to regenerate degraded cartilage

Ancients may have spiked their beer

Chemical consumption • Product labels are filled with jargon about chemicals or the lack of them – how can we know what it all means, asks Anna Turns

Field notes from space-time • How does fusion work? It may seem surprising that the way stars fuse elements isn’t crystal clear, but scientists are always honing the details, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Your letters

Lots in space

All the world’s a stage • A fictional pandemic may be a little too close to home, but the lives of a travelling troupe of actors make for strangely comforting viewing, says Elle Hunt

Earth before us • A unique mix of science and imagination takes us on a journey through long-lost worlds, finds Gege Li

Don’t miss

The film column • Back to the sci-fi old school While the streaming services get busy making the next generation of blockbusters, it frees up space in the schedules for a few classics that are well worth a watch, says Simon Ings

The pursuit of happiness • The “happiness revolution” emerging from scientific research suggests we can all do things to boost the well-being of society – and ourselves. But how much do we really know about what makes us happy, asks David Robson

Ranking of happiness, 2018-2020

FOUR ALTERNATIVES TO GDP • There are many measure countries can use to shift their focus from economic growth to broader goals that encompass things like...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 60 Publisher: New Scientist Ltd Edition: Jan 22 2022

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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

Pursuing happiness • Science is increasingly telling us where the founts of our well-being lie

New Scientist Australian Edition

Tongan volcano erupts • The huge explosion of an underwater volcano in the Pacific archipelago was a once-in-a-millennium event, reports Alice Klein

Can electric fields help plants grow? • Claims that a wind-powered device can boost crop yield don’t convince other scientists

A swimming robot powered by photosynthesis

Portable laser scanner creates 3D images in colour

First fully programmable atom-based quantum computer

Analysis Energy bills • Renewable subsidies part of the solution, not the problem A recent milestone shows how the UK’s green levies can help avoid energy price shocks, says Adam Vaughan

Edible straws made by bacteria beat plastic and paper

How can we end the pandemic? • Two years since it emerged, the coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. We can “live with covid”, but how we choose to do that will have huge consequences, reports Michael Marshall

What covid-19 becoming ‘endemic’ really means

Analysis SS Richard Montgomery • ‘Doomsday’ shipwreck to be made safer Almost 20 years after a New Scientist investigation exposed the risk, the UK government is finally acting, reports Mick Hamer

Virus’s link to MS is stronger than we thought

Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet

Extreme memory test helps select random numbers

Saturn’s small moon Mimas may have an impossible ocean

A West African script shows how letters evolve over time

Vast icefish breeding ground discovered in frigid waters

Giant bubble around solar system charted

Organics in martian rock not made by life

Really brief

Super-Earths have life-friendly shields

Electric implants seem able to regenerate degraded cartilage

Ancients may have spiked their beer

Chemical consumption • Product labels are filled with jargon about chemicals or the lack of them – how can we know what it all means, asks Anna Turns

Field notes from space-time • How does fusion work? It may seem surprising that the way stars fuse elements isn’t crystal clear, but scientists are always honing the details, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Your letters

Lots in space

All the world’s a stage • A fictional pandemic may be a little too close to home, but the lives of a travelling troupe of actors make for strangely comforting viewing, says Elle Hunt

Earth before us • A unique mix of science and imagination takes us on a journey through long-lost worlds, finds Gege Li

Don’t miss

The film column • Back to the sci-fi old school While the streaming services get busy making the next generation of blockbusters, it frees up space in the schedules for a few classics that are well worth a watch, says Simon Ings

The pursuit of happiness • The “happiness revolution” emerging from scientific research suggests we can all do things to boost the well-being of society – and ourselves. But how much do we really know about what makes us happy, asks David Robson

Ranking of happiness, 2018-2020

FOUR ALTERNATIVES TO GDP • There are many measure countries can use to shift their focus from economic growth to broader goals that encompass things like...


Expand title description text