23 November 2019 | New Scientist | 3On the
cover11 A fifth force
Fresh hints of a new
fundamental force of nature14 All the pretty horses
Stone Age artists and
their obsession with the
equine formNews
Views
Features
8 Virtual universe
A huge computer simulation
looks at how stars live and die10 Gene-edited babies
Geneticists debate
the rules of creating
CRISPR children12 Maths of solitaire
We finally know the odds
of winning this fiendish
one-player card game23 Comment
Michael Le Page on genetically
modified golden rice24 The columnist
James Wong takes a bite out
of the myth of addictive foods26 Letters Stress about the
end of the world as we know it28 Aperture Art in a Petri dish
probes human potential30 Culture
Time is up for outdated
ideas about testosterone51 Stargazing at home
See Venus and Jupiter together52 Puzzles
Cryptic crossword and a
hat-based logic puzzle53 Feedback
AI tipping point and the
best new words: the week
in weird54 Almost the last word
Dogs and nettles, wasps and
waists: readers respond56 The Q&A
Geologist Paul Smith on his
love of fossils and Greenland34 The way we die now
Astounding discoveries are
redrawing the line between
life and death42 Fabiola Gianotti
Scientific collaboration
has never been more vital,
says the director general
of CERNThe back
pages14 Equine obsession Stone Age artists in Europe loved painting horsesVol 244 No 3257
Cover image: Can Tuğrul34 The way we die now
A special issue42 Fabiola Gianotti
The woman who runs the
world’s biggest physics labNews
19 First map of Titan
24 ‘Hyperpalatable’ foods
20 The rise of stalkerware
11 Transparent batteriesThis week’s issue
34 Features
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