Our new issue is now online, featuring 29 responses to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Barbara Newman on medieval sanctuary, @moonjets on Shelley, Mimi Jiang on the end of Shanghai’s lockdown and @mmschwartz on the Bataclan verdict. https://lrb.co.uk
This week’s TLS, featuring @profbate on Arcadia in art and literature; @philipcball on Peter Higgs; @anelsona on philanthropy and inequality; @billmckibben on our climate turning point; @jamesamarcus on Emerson and Thoreau; @ScurrRuth on open-air painting – and more.
President Biden revealed the NASA telescope’s image of ancient galaxies whose light has been traveling 13 billion years to reach us.
Decades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment. The first science from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful observatory ever built. What questions will it answer? What new mysteries will discover? What will this new eye on the cosmos reveal? The telescope’s first science images will be out VERY soon. Here’s a quick look at what you can expect when they drop. For complete cover of the Webb, hit up: http://sciam.com/jwst
‘It is desirable for a Painter, at least once in his life, to witness the Eruption of a volcano.’ – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1799). Join exhibition contributor Clive Oppenheimer, Professor of Volcanology at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and explore the ‘Volcanoes’ section of True to Nature. #TrueToNature is open at the Fitzwilliam Museum until 29 August 2022 https://fitz.ms/ttn
CHILE’S VILLARRICA NATIONAL PARK—As a motley medley of mycologists climbed the basalt slopes of the Lanín volcano earlier this year, the green foliage at lower elevations gave way to autumnal golds and reds. Chile’s famed Araucaria—commonly called monkey puzzle trees—soon appeared, their spiny branches curving jauntily upward like so many cats’ tails.
Download PDF – KATIE LANGIN
For some, the ruling limits professional mobility and conference attendance
Download PDF – MITCH LESLIE
To spread, pathogens drive mice, people to make odorant
Download PDF – ROBERT F. SERVICE
In lab studies, SARS-CoV-2 finds ways to evade key drug. Some of the viral mutations are already found in people
Download PDF – ELIZABETH PENNISI
More than nutrient levels may drive toxic lake growths
In this week’s issue: We’re about to see the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope – here’s what we can expect Available at newsstands and via our app for digital and audio editions. https://newscientist.com/issue/3394/
This week in Nature: Higgs at 10 – Probing the properties of the most elusive particle in physics.
Browse the full issue: https://go.nature.com/3ReNGLb
This week’s @TheTLS , featuring @Godwin_lives on Shelley’s unfinished poems; @devoneylooser on Charles Austen and the slave trade; @jeres on the life of a plongeur; @Mika_R_S on Anna Wintour; @RozKaveney on Samuel R. Delany; @nheller on the Buddha’s tooth – and more.
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