New Scientist - Current Issue Articles

1. Tom Gauld's archaeological Venn diagram
   Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
2. Twisteddoodles on being a little less food-motivated
   This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
3. See Saturn emerge from behind our moon in game of celestial peek-a-boo
   On 4 January there was a lunar occultation of Saturn, when the moon blocks our view of the planet
4. A first nomination for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism award
   Feedback has found a contender for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism gong: the scientific journal Intelligence
5. BrainTwister #55: Squares in squares
   Can you solve this week’s logic puzzle? Plus our quick quiz and the answer to last week’s problem
6. Children are being overlooked in conversations about AI
   We need to stop ignoring young people's firsthand experience with artificial intelligence. They are already at the sharp end of its development, says Mhairi Aitken
7. Nerve-racking tale of reviving wild cocoa to make amazing chocolate
   Could cultivating wild cocoa help us produce great chocolate ethically? A stirring account reveals the problems of trying to transform an industry
8. Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble
   In Land of Marble, photographer Alessandro Gandolfi explores the past and future of Italy's striking marble quarries
9. Giant tracks show how dinosaurs roamed the UK millions of years ago
   Fossil footprints uncovered at a quarry were left by huge herbivores and carnivores that walked Earth around 166 million years ago
10. Can you use banana peels to fertilise your plants?
    Social media is rife with claims that banana skins can have a transformative effect on our houseplants. James Wong unpeels the science behind the trend