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How to spend a trillion dollars to fix climate change and end poverty

Science

MOST of us have had that conversation: what would you do if you won the lottery? Pay off the mortgage, quit your job, maybe start a small business doing something you have always dreamed of. But what if you acquired a truly vast fortune – not just a few million but a trillion dollars? And what if you had to spend it on making the world a better place?
New Scientist     Feb 24, 2021

The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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AROUND 6200 years ago, farmers living on the eastern fringes of Europe, in what is now Ukraine, did something inexplicable. They left their neolithic villages and moved into a sparsely inhabited area of forest and steppe. There, in an area roughly the size of Belgium between the modern cities of Kiev and Odessa, they congregated at new settlements up to 20 times the size of their old ones.
New Scientist     Feb 24, 2021

Metabolism myths: 7 things we get wrong about diet and exercise

Science

THE universe of good reasons for putting a live guinea pig in an insulated metal pot is small. I can think of only one: in France, in the winter of 1782, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier and his polymath friend Pierre-Simon Laplace placed their unwitting subject into a double-walled metal chamber, the world’s first calorimeter, and sealed the lid. They had packed snow into the space between the walls, and by comparing the rate at which the guinea pig’s body heat melted the snow to the rate of carbon dioxide it exhaled, they discovered metabolism – the “fire of life” that drives our very existence. At last, science had a physical measure of the life force that enables us to grow, reproduce and move. Physiologists like myself have been counting calories ever since.
New Scientist     Feb 24, 2021

Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

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WHEN David Nurse turned 30, he wanted to find out how his biological age compared with his chronological one. A life coach with the US National Baseball Association, he hoped that the ultra-healthy lifestyle he advocates to players had kept his own body young and healthy, too. So he took a test to assess the length of his telomeres. It revealed his biological age to be 28 years. That was in 2017. Two years later, he took another test. “I was down to 25, so that was great,” he says.
New Scientist     Feb 17, 2021

Elizabeth Mrema interview: We have to be optimistic about biodiversity

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But not just that: before our conference, we have subsidiary bodies that need to meet to negotiate and prepare for all the decisions that will be taken. These important discussions will guide the world for the next 10 years. We cannot negotiate virtually, we need to meet in person.
New Scientist     Feb 17, 2021

Our impact on Earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity – in graphics

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If we are to begin to rebalance our relationship with nature, we must first establish how out of kilter things are. But ecosystems are complex and no single measure can capture all the changes human activities have caused.
New Scientist     Feb 17, 2021

Ten conservation success stories when species came back from the brink

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LOOK at how we missed all 20 of the past decade’s biodiversity targets, or shocking graphs of animals threatened with extinction, and it is easy to be disheartened about the fate of the natural world. “There’s lots of doom and gloom stories around about biodiversity,” says Stuart Butchart at the conservation body BirdLife International. “It would be easy to feel conservation was a pointless exercise and there’s nothing we can do to slow the juggernaut down.”
New Scientist     Feb 17, 2021

Rescue plan for nature: How to fix the biodiversity crisis

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WE HAVE repeatedly been pressing the snooze button on the issue, but covid-19 has provided perhaps the final wake-up call. “2021 must be the year to reconcile humanity with nature,” said António Guterres, the UN secretary general, in an address to the One Planet Summit of global leaders in Paris last month. “Until now, we have been destroying our planet. We have been abusing it as if we have a spare one.”
New Scientist     Feb 17, 2021

The weirdest ways to measure a shop’s recycling efforts

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The UK’s continuing lockdown has, however, given us a renewed appreciation of our local shopping precinct, devoid as it is of people and actual shops to go into. Caught there in an eddy of pavement social distancing arrows without an apparent route of escape, we are brought up short in front of an excitable hoarding over a shop that is being recycled. Adorned with adorable cartoon pictures of marine life, it is the pinnacle, we find, of our confusion surrounding measurement units in recent weeks, as it declares:
New Scientist     Feb 17, 2021

Is there any type of fish you can actually eat sustainably?

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THE fish counter at my local supermarket has a chalkboard displaying how many different species are on sale on any given day. It is usually in the 20s, though sometimes creeps above 30. As well as staples such as cod, salmon and mackerel, it often has trout, sea bass, monkfish, langoustines, tuna, scallops, squid, catfish and flatfish.
New Scientist     Feb 10, 2021

The game-changing covid-19 treatments that helped slash the death rate

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AS MUCH as the gloves and N95 masks, Devan Kansagara‘s constant companion early last February was a sense of gnawing anxiety. As a physician at the Oregon Health Sciences University, he braced himself for a tidal wave of covid-19 cases. A few weeks later, it arrived. Like doctors around the world, Kansagara found himself having to care for patients with a deadly disease he knew very little about. “Everyone was grasping at straws,” he says.
New Scientist     Feb 10, 2021

Is our growing appetite for fish harming the planet?

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Since 1950 the amount of fish we eat has risen by a staggering 750 per cent. While we take comfort in labels declaring our seafood "sustainable", tracing its true environmental toll tells a different story
New Scientist     Feb 10, 2021

Avi Loeb interview: Could ‘Oumuamua be alien technology after all?

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has drawn criticism for suggesting a weird object passing through the solar system could be an alien spacecraft. But he insists we must keep an open mind when nature throws us a curveball
New Scientist     Feb 10, 2021

Covid-19 news: UK to test one dose each of different covid-19 vaccines

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New Scientist     Feb 04, 2021

How to be an expert: What does it really take to master your trade?

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We are relying on specialist knowledge to guide us through the coronavirus pandemic – so it is more important than ever to grasp what expertise is and where it comes from, says Roger Kneebone, author of a new book on the subject
New Scientist     Feb 03, 2021

A hydrogen fuel revolution is coming – here's why we might not want it

Science

IF HYDROGEN is the future, it has been for quite some time. In his 1875 novel The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne imagined the element replacing coal as a fuel, split out of water to “furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light”. Similar noises were made in the 1970s oil crisis, when hydrogen was touted as an alternative fuel for cars. And then there was US president George W. Bush in 2003, latching on to a new enthusiasm for hydrogen vehicles during the first wave of real concern about climate change. “We can make a fundamental difference for the future of our children,” he said.
New Scientist     Feb 03, 2021

Pandemic burnout: Do you have it and what can you do about it?

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There is a certain irony to the email I have just received: the pioneer of burnout research is feeling utterly swamped by work. Christina Maslach, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, spearheaded the study of burnout back in the 1970s and has been working on ways to tackle the problem ever since. Her expertise was already highly sought after even before the coronavirus pandemic. Now she can barely move under the weight of her inbox.
New Scientist     Feb 03, 2021

Bouncing backpack is easier to carry and generates electricity

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The bag is suspended on sliding rails that allow it to move up and down with a pair of rubber ropes on a pulley system, acting like a car’s suspension to reduce the impact of the backpack on the wearer as they walk. This reduces the amount of force generated by the contents of the pack jiggling about by around 21 per cent.
New Scientist     Feb 03, 2021