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1 May 2021

Issue 3332

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India's crisis should be a warning against covid-19 complacency

Health

India's crisis should be a warning against covid-19 complacency

News
Can we finally wipe out malaria with a vaccine 37 years in the making?

Health

Can we finally wipe out malaria with a vaccine 37 years in the making?

Features
Facebook vs Australia and the new battle to cut big tech down to size

Technology

Facebook vs Australia and the new battle to cut big tech down to size

Features
Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees

Life

Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

India's crisis should be a warning against covid-19 complacency

Health

India's crisis should be a warning against covid-19 complacency

THE covid-19 situation in India is terrible and is likely to get worse. The country has set one new record after another for the most daily coronavirus cases reported in any country. Just as the world was hoping the worst of the pandemic was over, we are seeing its biggest outbreak. Why is this happening …

News

News

Smog over London

Health

UK should set tougher air pollution limits, says Kissi-Debrah coroner

Smog over London, which has high levels of air pollution A coroner has urged the UK government to impose tougher legal limits on air pollution in line with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, to prevent more deaths like those of 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah. An inquest last year by coroner Philip Barlow into the death of …

News

Technology

Chemical code used to store Jane Austen quote in plastic molecules

News

Technology

AI analysis shows two scribes wrote one of the Dead Sea Scrolls

News

Technology

Robot taught table etiquette can explain why it won't follow the rules

News

Environment

AI face analysis can tell if cows and pigs are excited or stressed

News

Earth

Hailstones are not spheres – they’re shaped more like a rugby ball

News

Space

NASA has produced oxygen on the surface of Mars for the first time

News

Space

Sun-like stars spotted ejecting huge bursts of matter into space

News

Humans

Glancing at your phone quickly prompts other people to do the same

News

Life

Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

News

Space

Antimatter stars may lurk in the solar system’s neighbourhood

News

Humans

Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze

News

Environment

70 per cent of people live in countries without sustainable resources

News

Earth

Earth’s land may have formed 500 million years earlier than we thought

News

Health

Oxygen Express trains deliver supplies as India hit by covid-19 surge

News

Space

China is about to start building a space station in orbit

News

Life

Male parasitic wasps can detect females inside an infected host fly

News

Health

Covid-19 lockdown has left young children vulnerable to some illnesses

News

Health

We'll soon be able to tell whether you are immune to covid-19

News

Analysis

Why the latest muon measurements are so tantalising for physics

Physics

Why the latest muon measurements are so tantalising for physics

WE TEND to think that the three biggest problems with the standard model of particle physics are how it struggles to include gravity, the absence of a good dark matter candidate and (to some of us, at least) its inadequate explanation for the cosmic acceleration/dark energy problem. Otherwise, it is heralded as an incredibly successful …

News

Space

Why bringing Martian rocks back to Earth is a bad idea

News

Aperture

Nature's hardest-to-reproduce colours recreated in exhibition

Life

Nature's hardest-to-reproduce colours recreated in exhibition

Naturally Brilliant Colour, Kew Gardens, London THESE beautiful, vibrant images are from a forthcoming exhibition exploring colour at Kew Gardens, London. The show highlights nature's most brilliant hues, as well as the brightest human recreations of them. What we perceive as colour is normally the result of certain wavelengths of light being absorbed by the …

Regulars

Features

Can we finally wipe out malaria with a vaccine 37 years in the making?

Health

Can we finally wipe out malaria with a vaccine 37 years in the making?

Efforts to make malaria history have had huge success in recent years. Now, there’s hope that the long-awaited RTS,S vaccine can go the last mile

Features

Technology

Facebook vs Australia and the new battle to cut big tech down to size

Features

Life

Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees

Features

Culture

Greta Thunberg views a coal mine in Bełchatów, Poland

Environment

Greta Thunberg's amazing year meeting the world's climate scientists

Greta Thunberg views a coal mine in Bełchatów, Poland Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World BBC First episode, BBC One, 12 April   “I don’t want you to listen to me, I want you to listen to the science,” says Greta Thunberg in the first episode of a new three-part documentary series about …

Culture

Environment

Exhibition puts on show the tech we need to avert the climate crisis

Culture

Life

The Deep-Sea Podcast review: The mind-boggling mysteries of the deep

Culture

Humans

Don't Miss: Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy features sci-fi parent envy

Culture

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Puzzle #111: What cards do Tom and Amy have?

#111 Eclair-voyance Tom and Amy are colleagues who are both excellent logicians; they speak honestly and accurately, and no bit of good deduction slips past them. Another thing they won't let slip past is the last eclair on the tray at the annual puzzlers' party. Since neither is willing to back down, they propose a …

Regulars

Health

Allergies are on the rise – here's how to help scientists find out why

Regulars

Tom Gauld on the subtle differences between geography and philosophy

Regulars

Twisteddoodles on what to feed ducks instead of bread

Regulars

Regulars

The £1 million pixel that is the future of art (or not)

Humans

The £1 million pixel that is the future of art (or not)

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Regulars

Regulars

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Regulars

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