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.
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.
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For some, the ruling limits professional mobility and conference attendance
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To spread, pathogens drive mice, people to make odorant
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In lab studies, SARS-CoV-2 finds ways to evade key drug. Some of the viral mutations are already found in people
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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.
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
Authors and editors ignored warnings about citing noted fraudster, exposing a problem in scholarly publishing
Deep carbon exhumed by volcanic rift between Greenland and Europe implicated in 56-million-year-old hothouse
The promise of a new diet that can add as much as a decade to your life is certainly tempting – and might well be proven to work – but for now should be swallowed with a pinch of salt
July/August 2022
Is technology making cities better—or worse? A deep dive into what we stand to lose in the pursuit of efficiency and convenience.
The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments
By Tim Folger
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade
By Katie Worth
Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways
By Rachel Yehuda
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
A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics
By Anil Ananthaswamy
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
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