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On the
cover
42 Super magnets
The new material that will
transform technology
12 End game
Grand unified theory of
two-player games revealed
14 Your dog’s true age
...and how to calculate it
News
Views
Features
8 Suspended animation
Our exclusive special report on
a groundbreaking medical first
17 Climate tipping points
Mathematical analysis
suggests we may be closer
to disaster than we thought
20 The truth about vaping
Does a spate of lung injuries
mean e-cigarattes aren’t safe?
23 Comment
Vote with climate in mind,
says Jacob Aron
24 The columnist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
on the universe’s origin
26 Letters
Neglected concerns about
the nutrient choline
28 Aperture
See the exquisite insides
of a glorious gem
30 Culture
Two books describe when
innovations can kill
51 Stargazing at home
See Mercury rising in the east
52 Puzzles
Quick crossword, a book puzzle
and a quiz
53 Feedback
Paper phones and drug-raiding
boar: the week in weird
54 Almost the last word
Can screens make spectacles
redundant? Readers respond
56 The Q&A
Jeffrey Hangst on how to
make antimatter
34 Why the medicine you take
could actually be bad for you
Rushing drugs to market may be
doing more harm than good
40 Rational outrage
Naomi Oreskes on the best ways
to combat science denial
42 Super magnets
Exotic new materials are poised
to transform computing,
cosmology and medicine
The back pages
31 Videotopian dreaming Nam June Paik is at London’s Tate Modern
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Cover image: Getty Images
34 Why the medicine you
take could actually be
bad for your health
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Culture
10 The mass of a neutrino
16 Why 70 is the new 65
8 Suspended animation
17 Climate tipping points
This week’s issue
40 Features
“ Climate
change
is scary.
And when
people are
frightened,
they lash out
in all sorts of
directions”