New Scientist - International (2019-11-23)

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23 November 2019 | New Scientist | 3

On the
cover

11 A fifth force
Fresh hints of a new
fundamental force of nature

14 All the pretty horses
Stone Age artists and
their obsession with the
equine form

News


Views


Features


8 Virtual universe
A huge computer simulation
looks at how stars live and die

10 Gene-edited babies
Geneticists debate
the rules of creating
CRISPR children

12 Maths of solitaire
We finally know the odds
of winning this fiendish
one-player card game

23 Comment
Michael Le Page on genetically
modified golden rice

24 The columnist
James Wong takes a bite out
of the myth of addictive foods

26 Letters Stress about the
end of the world as we know it

28 Aperture Art in a Petri dish
probes human potential

30 Culture
Time is up for outdated
ideas about testosterone

51 Stargazing at home
See Venus and Jupiter together

52 Puzzles
Cryptic crossword and a
hat-based logic puzzle

53 Feedback
AI tipping point and the
best new words: the week
in weird

54 Almost the last word
Dogs and nettles, wasps and
waists: readers respond

56 The Q&A
Geologist Paul Smith on his
love of fossils and Greenland

34 The way we die now
Astounding discoveries are
redrawing the line between
life and death

42 Fabiola Gianotti
Scientific collaboration
has never been more vital,
says the director general
of CERN

The back
pages

14 Equine obsession Stone Age artists in Europe loved painting horses

Vol 244 No 3257
Cover image: Can Tuğrul

34 The way we die now
A special issue

42 Fabiola Gianotti
The woman who runs the
world’s biggest physics lab

News


19 First map of Titan
24  ‘Hyperpalatable’ foods
20 The rise of stalkerware
11 Transparent batteries

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