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22 June 2019 | New Scientist | 1

8 Mystery solved? Hittite carvings may be an ancient calendar

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24 Columnist


“ Secularism, religion and


environmentalism are


entwined in ways that have


scarcely been explored”


On the
cover

42 The worst planets
Hellish truth about Mercury
and Venus

8 Ancient ‘Sistine Chapel’
3000-year-old Hittite mystery
finally solved

12 Rise of superweeds
Coming soon: plants that resist
all herbicides

Coming
next week

Covertly conscious
People in long-term comas
may be more aware than
we knew

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Features


6 China organ transplants
Inquiry says organs are still
being taken from prisoners

10 Net zero emissions
UK to commit to ambitious
climate goal

14 Undetected Ebola
More than half of all outbreaks
may go unrecognised

23 Comment
We must understand the roots
of “anti-vax”, says Furaha Asani

24 The columnist
Graham Lawton on religion
and climate change

26 Letters
There are more ways to profit
from going green

28 Aperture
Can you spot the common
potoo in this image?

30 Culture
A podcast about women’s
sexual health will change lives

51 Maker
How to make a disco ball

52 Puzzles
Quick crossword, a prison puzzle
and a short quiz

53 Feedback
Metric madness and climate
sewage

54 Almost the last word
Why eyeballs don’t freeze and
the nature of dust

56 Me and my telescope
Anthropologist Ruth Mace on
the people of western China

34 The human brain
The more we learn about our
command centre, the more
mysteries arise

42 The worst planets
Mercury and Venus are two of
Earth’s closest cousins. So how
did they turn out so hellish?

The back pages


Vol 242 No 3235
Cover image: Sofia Bonati

34 The human brain
Understanding the most
complex object in the
known universe

20 Do protests work? 12 Pancake science 14 Robot irony
7 Our strangely quiet black hole 15 Vertical farming

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