This week’s issue

On the 7 AstraZeneca vaccine row

Confusion over blood
41 Features
cover clot claims “One study
36 How to think 15 Core mystery found that
yourself younger Why is Earth’s interior
Psychological tricks to slow cooling weirdly? 57 per cent of
the course of ageing
44 Mark Carney on the warming
climate change
To fix the planet, we first
caused by
need to fix capitalism aviation
17 When fish fly 18 Jaguars that live was due to
in trees 41 Clearing the skies of
Vol 249 No 3326 contrails 16 How our diet evolved contrails”
Cover image: Ben Wiseman

News Features
8 Delayed second dose? 36 Don’t act your age!
Countries disagree over News How to think yourself younger
coronavirus vaccine regimens with the right state of mind

14 Interstellar objects 41 Cloud control

Seven alien space rocks should Aircraft contrails are terrible for
be visiting us each year Earth’s climate. Can we banish
this fluffy menace?
19 AI bias
The UK is still using a passport 44 Mark Carney interview
photo checker that works The former central banker on
poorly with certain skin tones fixing the climate emergency
through the power of finance

Views
The back pages
23 Comment
Jeff Ollerton on the role of 51 Stargazing at home
pollinators for climate change What makes an equinox?

24 The columnist 52 Puzzles

Annalee Newitz on “crypto art” Try our crossword, quick quiz
and non-fungible tokens and logic puzzle

26 Letters 54 Almost the last word

More worries about the From how far away is the sun
risk of disease spillover no longer the brightest star?

28 Aperture 55 Tom Gauld for 

A stunning bird-shaped New Scientist
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murmuration of starlings A cartoonist’s take on the world

30 Culture 56 Feedback
The explosive story Concrete lunacy and more
of SpaceX’s early days 18 High life Flooding has forced some jaguars to live in trees for months nominative determinism

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