17 August 2019 | New Scientist | 1On the
cover42 Bye-bye big bang
The beginning of everything
might not be the beginning9 Your single celled ancestor
The deep-sea microbe
that made us what we areComing
next weekThe future of thought
How artificial intelligence is
changing the way we thinkNews
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Features
7 Detecting hate speech
Google’s AI detector may
be racially biased10 Causes of death
The truth about the UK’s
dementia statistics12 Fast radio bursts
Mysterious signals from
space could teach us how
dark energy works23 Comment
Sexuality is complex,
says Andrew Barron24 The columnist
Graham Lawton on the
terrible rise of real eco-facism26 Letters
Care is needed when
outsmarting the brain28 Aperture
Mars 2020 rover gets
a dotty vision test30 Culture
How walking makes
us fitter and smarter51 Maker
Create a BBQ thermometer52 Puzzles
Quick crossword, a flipping
problem and the quiz53 Feedback
Chessboard survival and
exploding dogs: the week in weird54 Almost the last word
Readers respond about clean
limbs and beef versus tofu56 The Q&A
Lee Cronin on nature’s patterns
and finding alien life34 The perfection trap
An epidemic of perfectionism
is damaging our mental health38 Chiller bees
How super-aggressive killer
bees found their softer side
on a Caribbean island42 What if there was
no big bang?
The startling new theory about
the origins of everythingThe back pages
6 Sex determination It could become easier to choose to have a boyVol 243 No 324334 The perfection trap
How to escape the tyranny
of needing everything
exactly right20 Cannabis cure-all?
The truth behind CBD
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42 Features
“ There never was a big bang,
but instead a universe with
no beginning and no end”