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On the
cover
36 Apollo 11 50th
anniversary: The moon
How we got there
What we learned
Why we’re going back
Coming
next week
Cosmic countdown
The universe’s fate could be
stranger than we thought
News
Views
Features
10 Computer genius
Software mimics a legendary
mathematician’s style
13 Murder in the Palaeolithic
Modern forensics identifies
an early homicide
18 China races ahead
The nation leads the world
when it comes to electric
vehicles
21 Comment
We need to think about how
we die, says Clare Wilson
22 The columnist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
wants to save our helium
24 Letters
Consciousness really does
pose a hard problem
26 Aperture
A kitsch celebration of the
epic Soviet space dog flights
30 Culture columnist
Simon Ings delights in
The Hummingbird Project
51 Maker
Use electronics to communicate
with plants
52 Puzzles
A moon-themed cryptic
crossword, puzzles and quiz
53 Feedback
Corr conspiracies and bus building
54 Almost the last word
Readers discuss dinosaur noises
and chickpea foam
56 Me and my telescope
Sue Black on tech, women
and knitting before it was cool
32 Everything you know
about nutrition is wrong
Why almost all food advice
is fatally flawed
36 The moon
50 years on from the Apollo 11
landing, moon fever is back
46 Predictive policing
The criminologist working to
stop crime before it happens
The back pages
28 Art in the Anthropocene Olafur Eliasson is returning to Tate Modern
Vol 243 No 3238
32 Why everything
you know about
nutrition is wrong
Convoluted studies
Cherry-picked evidence
Contradictory advice
Views
46 Predictive policing 14 Arctic on fire 8 More CRISPR babies
12 Hypersonic arms race 17 Very ancient Greeks
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