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On the
cover7 Beyond containment
The coronavirus cannot be
stopped, but it can be slowed40 How to be found
The predictable mistakes
we make when we’re lost20 A trillion trees
Is planting forests the best
way to fight climate change?Vol 245 No 3271
Cover image: Sawdust44 Antimatter
We’re here because it isn’t
We’re about to find out why16 Cobalt blues
The problem with
electric car batteries14 Ancient cockroaches 15 Safer CRISPR 11 Marsquakes
9 Stars stealing planets 51 How to make your own kimchiThis week’s issue
News
Views
Features
8 Mind-reading
Can brain scans reveal
the wishes of people
in intensive care?9 Enter the vault
First seeds deposited in
upgraded doomsday facility14 Radio burst explained?
We may know the source of
repeating signals from space25 Comment
E-scooters are a scourge but
we need them, says Donna Lu26 The columnist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
on the atmosphere28 Aperture
Blasted image of a cancer
cell could help crack cancer30 Letters
Some reasons not to take
up alphabetic writing32 Culture
Is there a downside to the
rise of the Instagram filter?51 Science of cooking
How to make your own kimchi52 Puzzles
Quick crossword, a traffic
lights puzzle and the quiz53 Feedback
Cryptic headlines and British
dinosaurs: the week in weird54 Almost the last word
Compliment before criticism?
Readers respond56 The Q&A
Christopher Medina-Kirchner,
ecstasy researcher36 Enemies within
Ancient viruses hidden within
our genome could reawaken,
causing disease40 How to be found
People who get lost make
strangely predictable mistakes44 Antimatter
An enigmatic mirror world
could finally reveal why our
own existsThe back pages
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