This week's magazine
1 January 2022
Issue 3367
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Technology
2022 preview: High-voltage supergrids could power the world
Countries and even entire continents will start joining up their electrical grids in an effort to share renewable power and tackle climate change
Health
2022 preview: mRNA tech behind covid-19 vaccines could get new uses
Health
2022 preview: Expect a row over controversial Alzheimer’s drug
Technology
2022 preview: Large Hadron Collider will reach for the edge of physics
Life
2022 preview: China to host crucial meeting in a bid to save nature
Technology
2022 preview: Quantum computers may finally become useful tools
Health
2022 preview: What will the coronavirus do next?
Space
2022 preview: A round-up of the year’s most exciting space missions
Analysis
Features
Health
How shifting your expectations about food can help you lose weight
The go-to advice for effective dieting is to choose food that is marketed as healthy and is low in calories, carbs and fat – but the way we think about such meals might actually cause us to gain weight
Environment
Peatlands in peril: The race to save the bogs that slow climate change
Physics
What the thermodynamics of clocks tell us about the mysteries of time
Culture
Humans
The best science books coming your way in 2022
A new glut of non-fiction books promises to inspire us to discover the world - and protect
Humans
Our pick of the best sci-fi and speculative fiction books for 2022
Humans
The best sci-fi TV shows and movies to look forward to in 2022
More
Space
Find the most distant galaxy visible to the naked eye
New year, new moon, dark skies – the perfect chance to see Triangulum, the furthest celestial object you could ever see unaided, says Abigail Beall
Twisteddoodles: Welcome to the Centre for Human Research
Tom Gauld ticks umpteen things off the 2022 to-do list
Regulars
Humans
Do all Australian critters glow green under UV light, or is it borax?
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