8 June 2019 | New Scientist | 3This week’s issue
On the
cover9 Romans and climate change 15 Bees build plastic nest 11 Elephants use
smell to count 15 How to settle the galaxy38 Extreme imagination
The people with a mind’s eye
as vivid as cinema8 Quantum leaps are real
And now we can control them14 Complete regeneration
The animal that rebuilds itself
from scratchComing
next weekWalk this way?
Why 10,000 steps isn’t the
right target – and what isNews
Views
Features
9 Roman climate change
How the empire’s activities
cooled Europe11 The heavens align
The planets may control the
sun’s activity13 Happiness budget
Will New Zealand’s plans to
prioritise mental health over
wealth work?23 Comment
DNA shouldn’t be used as
a marketing tool24 The columnist
Are we really eating more
sugar, wonders James Wong26 Letters
Surgery is risky enough
without doing it over 5G28 Aperture
Dinosaur that looks like
hellhound demigod32 Culture
What happens when our
inner world fractures?51 Maker
Code your own fortune teller52 Puzzles
Cryptic crossword, a three-dart
problem and a quiz53 Feedback
Shaman shaming54 Almost the last word
Hand drying and car crashes56 Me and my telescope
Zoe Laughlin on wondrous
materials and Dolly Parton34 Mirrorverse
A universe identical to our own
may be all around us38 The mind’s eye
Some people’s imaginations are
as vivid as cinema42 Teabag ecology
The humble teabag is key to an
ambitious new experiment44 AI shouldn’t scare us
Meet Yoshua Bengio, a founding
father of artificial intelligenceThe back pages
20 Exporting sunshine Hydrogen power could help Australia go greenVol 242 No 3233
Cover image: Chris Gash34 Inside the mirrorverse
Welcome to the
parallel reality that’s
hiding in plain sight44 ‘AI is really dumb’
An audience with
deep-learning pioneer
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