Preview: New Scientist Magazine – July 16, 2022
Tag Archives: Research
Cover Preview: Science Magazine – July 8, 2022
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.
Scientists decry reversal of U.S. abortion rights
Download PDF – KATIE LANGIN
For some, the ruling limits professional mobility and conference attendance
Dengue and zika viruses turn people into mosquito bait
Download PDF – MITCH LESLIE
To spread, pathogens drive mice, people to make odorant
Bad news for Paxlovid? Resistance may be coming
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
It takes a (microbial) village to make an algal bloom
Download PDF – ELIZABETH PENNISI
More than nutrient levels may drive toxic lake growths
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – July 9, 2022
COVER STORIES
- FEATURES – How to understand your inner voice and control your inner critic
- FEATURES – 7 big questions the James Webb Space Telescope is about to answer
- NEWS– Covid-19: What are the risks of catching the virus multiple times?
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/
Cover Preview: Nature Magazine – July 7, 2022
This week in Nature: Higgs at 10 – Probing the properties of the most elusive particle in physics.
Research Highlights
- Painkillers are dispensed less freely by night-shift doctors Physicians show less empathy at the end of a night shift than after a daytime stint — and are less likely to prescribe drugs for treating pain. Research Highlight 27 Jun 2022
- ‘Smart’ clothing flexes to provide relief from the heat Garments laced with strips that flatten and bend help to cool a hot person or warm a cold one — without battery power. Research Highlight 29 Jun 2022
- Gut microbes that munch on orange pulp charge up metabolism A molecule that can be extracted from the fruit is linked to a decline in fat storage and faster breakdown of sugar in mice. Research Highlight 27 Jun 2022
- Even glaciers have a microbiome — including unique bacteria Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau boast a wide diversity of microorganisms, including species found nowhere else.
Browse the full issue: https://go.nature.com/3ReNGLb
Cover Preview: Science Magazine – July 1, 2022
An ash and gas plume rises from Hunga volcano, Tonga, on 14 January 2022. Global geophysical observations reveal that the climactic eruption that followed on 15 January produced a broad range of atmospheric waves, with pressure wave amplitudes comparable with those from the 1883 Krakatau eruption. While propagating over the world’s oceans, the remarkable atmospheric waves generated complex fast-traveling tsunamis. See pages 30, 91, and 95.
Photo: Taaniela Kula, Tonga Geological Services
United Kingdom set to abandon EU funding and go it alone
- Horizon Europe grants held hostage over Brexit dispute
Silence greets requests to flag retracted studies
Authors and editors ignored warnings about citing noted fraudster, exposing a problem in scholarly publishing
Hidden carbon layer sparked ancient bout of global warming
Deep carbon exhumed by volcanic rift between Greenland and Europe implicated in 56-million-year-old hothouse
Cover Preview: Nature Magazine – June 30, 2022
Order out of chaos
The cover shows an artistic representation of various cancer cells. The large-scale gains, losses and rearrangements of DNA seen in chromosomal instability are a typical feature of cancer — but there is no comprehensive framework to decode the causes of this genomic variability and their possible links to disease. In this week’s issue, Florian Markowetz, Geoff Macintyre and their colleagues present such a framework with a compendium of 17 signatures of chromosomal instability that can be used to predict how tumours might respond to drugs and that help to identify future therapeutic targets. The team created the compendium by examining 7,880 tumours representing 33 types of cancer. In a separate paper, Nischalan Pillay and colleagues examined 9,873 cancers to generate
Cover Preview: Scientific American – July 2022
Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down
The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments
By Tim Folger
Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade
By Katie Worth
How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways
By Rachel Yehuda
Toxic Slime Contributed to Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction–And It’s Making a Comeback
Global warming fueled rampant overgrowth of microbes at the end of the Permian period. Such lethal blooms may be on the rise again
By Chris Mays, Vivi Vajda and Stephen McLoughlin
Astronomers Gear Up to Grapple with the High-Tension Cosmos
A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics
By Anil Ananthaswamy
‘Momentum Computing’ Pushes Technology’s Thermodynamic Limits
Overheating is a major problem for today’s computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing
By Philip Ball
Cover Preview: Science Magazine – June 24, 2022
COVER: Humanity’s actions have committed us to a warming climate and limited our options for mitigation. Although there is no turning back, some paths are still open to avoid catastrophic climate change and reduce its impacts. We must act now to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and change our approaches to growing food, consuming products, and managing ecosystems to avoid a dire future. See page 1392.
Illustration: Myriam Wares
Our climate future
Time to act
CAROLINE ASH
The matter of a clean energy future
JAMES MORTON TURNER
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – June 25, 2022
Cover Previews: Nature Magazine – June 23, 2022
The science of inequality
To study inequality is to confront a world of contrasts: excessive wealth next to palpable poverty; sickness abutting health. The COVID pandemic has exposed and worsened many such disparities. This week, Nature presents a special collection of articles focusing on the researchers trying to quantify and reduce inequality. Whether they are measuring the effects of the pandemic or testing interventions to lift people out of poverty, the message is simple: gathering the right information will help to mitigate the harm caused by inequality.
Cover image: Mike McQuade.
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