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New Scientist Weekly News - June 24, 2023 Highlights - Studocu This week’s issue 28 Our pick of the best On the 32 Features books so far this year cover “ We want 40 The microbes that 32 Life’s magic number can fight cancer to discover Have we discovered the 15 crucial steps required 8 Why 2023 is set to be the alien life by for matter to come alive? hottest year on record making it 7 Weird stink bug from scratch 18 Fastest star in the galaxy 44 Quicker homemade pasta in the lab” 46 Telling the time on Mars Vol 258 No 3444
Cover image: Bird: Andy Singleton Origami: bor-zebra/iStock News Features 10 Quantum cryptocurrency 32 What is life? Mining bitcoin on quantum Culture
Astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker devices may slash energy use
on discovering the 15 steps that make matter come alive 11 Wobbling Earth People pumping groundwater 36 A very mucky problem
has shifted the planet’s axis How farming is cleaning up
its act to save Britain’s rivers 17 Not so clever “Smart drugs” make people 40 Tumour microbiome worse at problem-solving test The weaponised microbes providing a whole new way to fight cancer Views The back pages 21 Comment
Why medical studies of diverse 44 The science of cooking populations benefit humanity
How to make quick pasta at home 22 The columnist 45 Puzzles Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Try our crossword, quick quiz on the problem of mass and logic puzzle 24 Letters 46 Almost the last word We can talk to the animals, If people colonised Mars, so chat with ET is possible how would they tell the time? 00:08, 10/01/2026
New Scientist Weekly News - June 24, 2023 Highlights - Studocu p y 26 Aperture 48 Feedback The impact of climate change Not-so-comforting comfort on people in Bangladesh food and missing missiles 30 Culture 48 Twisteddoodles Exciting science books SIMO f No Br O N TT e O w ML ES Y/ c G iEe T n T t Y iIs Mt AGES to engage kids of all ages
28 The joy of reading Science and sci-fi books to escape into
Picturing the lighter side of life
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New Scientist Weekly News - June 24, 2023 Highlights - Studocu News Analysis Climate
Why 2023 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record
Global weather phenomena are conspiring to raise temperatures further
this year, adding to human-driven climate change, finds Madeleine Cuff SPIKING temperatures in the human history has ever seen
world’s oceans and the arrival of ocean temperatures this warm,
El Niño weather conditions in the and the air temperatures that
Pacific mean that 2023 is shaping
we’re seeing as well are coming
up to be the hottest year on record, up to record-breaking.”
with researchers saying the planet Although the broad drivers
is entering “uncharted territory”.
of warming – El Niño conditions The hottest year on record is
plus climate change – are the same
2016, which is also when the world
as in 2016, this year the heat is
was last in a warming El Niño
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manifesting differently. Whereas
weather pattern (although other
in 2016 spikes in temperature were
agencies say 2020 also tied for
concentrated over the Siberian
the top spot). Now, temperature
Arctic, in 2023 the warmth has
records this month suggest 2023 been seen in multiple spots,
could be tracking close to 2016.
including in the Southern Ocean
The first 11 days of June registered
and Antarctica earlier this year.
the highest global temperatures Over recent months, there has
on record for this time of the year, been growing concern over the according to Copernicus, the
lack of Antarctic sea ice, with European Union’s Earth February 2023 setting a new observation programme, all-time record for minimum following on from the second- sea ice of just 1.79 million warmest May on record and the Workers filling water
drive warmer sea temperatures, square kilometres. The ice is fourth-warmest April. bottles during a heatwave
have only just arrived and won’t
reforming as winter takes hold The peak occurred on 9 June, in June in New Delhi, India
peak until the end of the year.
there, but is still tracking well when the average global air Weakened trade winds as a below average.
temperature was 16.7°C (62°F),
result of changes in atmospheric This atmospheric variability, just 0.1°C below the warmest dynamics is perhaps the most
with El Niño on top of general
ever recorded on 13 August 2016.
likely explanation, says Samantha
warming, is the same as it was While human-driven climate Burgess at Copernicus. In the
seven years ago, says Christopher
change continues to raise global
North Atlantic, a slump in wind Merchant at the University of
temperatures, there is no evidence strength may have reduced the
Reading, UK. “There is a good
to suggest that the process is
amount of dust blowing through
chance that we’re heading for
accelerating this year. Instead,
this part of the ocean from the another record-breaking year, specific warming conditions Sahara, which usually has this year or next year.”
are being layered on top of the a cooling impact.
As El Niño builds, scientists
1.3°C temperature rise caused by The surge in ocean and air
expect to see more temperature
climate change so far, pushing
temperatures is surprising for the
anomalies as its influence starts to records ever higher.
time of year, says Burgess. Globally
tilt weather patterns. “On top of 2016
One of the drivers of the recent
speaking, the first few days of
the world as a whole being slightly
heat surge has been the warmth in The hottest year
June breached a 1.5°C increase
warmer, you tend to get regional
and above the oceans. For months, on record so far in temperatures compared with
weather patterns, which gives you
scientists have been warning that
the same time of the year in pre-
climate anomalies,” says Manoj sea surface temperatures have
industrial times – a threshold
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New Scientist Weekly News - June 24, 2023 Highlights - Studocu p Jos at t e U ve s ty o ast
been at record highs, driven by
only previously surpassed during Anglia in Norwich, UK. marine heatwaves around the Warmest average global northern hemisphere winters, The way the warmth manifests 16.8°C
world. In the North Atlantic on air temperature (62°F) , when temperature anomalies
won’t be the same as in 2016, 17 June, temperatures peaked seen on 13 August 2016 are more common.
says Merchant. “I think there
at 23°C (73.4°F), 0.2°C above the
“What we’ve observed to date
are unlikely to be parallels in previous high set in 2010.
is suggesting that 2023 will be the exact patterns of warm 16.7°C
It isn’t yet clear why the oceans
probably in the top five warmest ocean temperatures or land
are so hot now, particularly given
Average global air temperature
years,” says Burgess. “We are in
temperatures, because the climate
that El Niño conditions, which recorded on 9 June 2023
uncharted territory. No one in
doesn’t really repeat like that.” ❚
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