1 June 2019 | New Scientist | 1This week’s issue
On the
cover13 Our lazy young sun 14 Ancient melons 40 Dino birds 13 Dogs against
Lyme disease 51 Make a propeller-powered car46 Black hole atoms
Bouncing particle clouds
the size of a planet42 Pong-ology
The hunt for the world’s
best smells20 Femtech gold rush
Who’s cashing in on women’s
most intimate data?Coming
next weekInto the mind’s eye
People with extreme
imaginations could teach us
how consciousness worksNews
Views
Features
7 Animal avatars
Specially created flies guide
cancer treatment9 Face recognition fightback
Is it too late to prevent the
spread of AI surveillance?12 School nurse robot
The bot that checks the
health of thousands of
children daily23 Comment
Singapore’s curb on fake news
sets a dangerous precedent24 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on why the AI
apocalypse will be very weird26 Letters
Why do we tolerate the
internet of broken things?28 Aperture
A Welsh beaver that may end
up running wild in the UK32 Culture
Building your own Mars colony
throws up tricky dilemmas51 Maker
Build a propeller-powered car52 Puzzles
Quick crossword, a disappearing
sock mystery and quiz53 Feedback
Zombie climate apocalypse54 Almost the last word
Burning rubber and heating toast56 Me and my telescope
Tana Joseph on binary stars and
her cartoon motto34 Light up your life
How spending too much time
indoors affects your health40 The early bird
Archaeopteryx’s travels shaped
its evolution in an intriguing way42 What makes a good smell?
Odour prospectors are on the
hunt for the ultimate scent46 Black hole atoms
Asimina Arvanitaki on
planet-sized particlesThe back pages
30 Art of data Ryoji Ikeda’s data-verse 1 at the Venice BiennaleVol 242 No 3232
Cover image: Gun Karlsson34 Light up your life
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