2019-06-22_New_Scientist

38 | New Scientist | 22 June 2019 thought involves a surprising amount of activity, with different brain areas firing up and sen ...

22 June 2019 | New Scientist | 39 Estimated memory capacity of the human brain [equivalent to that of the World Wide Web] petaby ...

40 | New Scientist | 22 June 2019 We often say we make decisions on the basis of gut feelings, and this may be truer than we rea ...

22 June 2019 | New Scientist | 41 It is a harsh fact of life: as you get older, your cognitive abilities start to wane. But why ...

Worst of all possible worlds Mercury and Venus are two of Earth’s closest cousins, says Leah Crane. So how did they turn out so ...

C LOSE to the sun lie a pair of sizzling coals. You could be forgiven for thinking these strange worlds were two circles of hell ...

if Mercury was boring if we hadn’t had Messenger there to prove it wasn’t.” One thing Messenger experienced directly was just ho ...

Mercury and provide the most comprehensive global view we have ever had of the strange little world. It launched in 2018, but be ...

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50 | NewScientist 22 June 2019 rigb.org/whats-on Small steps and giant leaps Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing ...

22 June 2019 | New Scientist | 51 New stuff you need Continuous rotation servo Sound sensor micro:bit edge connector (optional) ...

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22 June 2019 | New Scientist | 53 The back pages Feedback Desperate measures Who keeps the metric system down? If he has his way ...

54 | New Scientist | 22 June 2019 Heated windshield It is a windy -20°C outside and I just saw a flock of ducks fly over. How do ...

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56 | New Scientist | 22 June 2019 The back pages Me and my telescope Ruth Mace studies the evolutionary roots of human behaviour ...

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