2018-11-03 New Scientist Australian Edition

18 | NewScientist | 3 November 2018 For new stories every day, visit newscientist.com/news A day in the shade builds up a tan SK ...

AVAILABLE NOW newscientist.com/books WHAT IF DINOSAURS STILL RULED THE EARTH? WHAT IF THE RUSSIANS GOT TO THE MOON FIRST? WHAT I ...

Watch mind-expanding talks from neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, geneticist David Reich, mathematician Hannah Fry, astronaut Tim Peake ...

Jim Al-Khalili A brief history of gravity Tara Shears Why hasn’t the LHC found anything new? (...or has it?) Henry Marsh A life ...

22 | NewScientist | 3 November 2018 HURRICANE Michael was a big one. Intensifying faster than expected, its 250-kilometres-per- ...

3 November 2018 | NewScientist | 23 debate about whether ocean warming through climate change is creating clear trends. But the ...

24 | NewScientist | 3 November 2018 COMMENT Holding it together Europe’s scientific elite say a hard Brexit will damage science. ...

3 November 2018 | NewScientist | 25 Chelsea Whyte THERE are places in the US where air quality is so poor that it can lead to se ...

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3 November 2018 | NewScientist | 27 Help, I’m in a black hole! A GLORIOUS simulation lets visitors experience what it might be l ...

Doubts are being raised about 2015’s breakthrough gravitational wave discovery. Michael Brooks investigates ENRICO SACCHETTI WAV ...

3 November 2018 | NewScientist | 29 gravitational waves emitted as a pair of distant black holes spun into one another. The misg ...

30 | NewScientist | 3 November 2018 detector hardware. Noise is a huge problem in gravitational wave detections. Hence why there ...

3 November 2018 | NewScientist | 31 holes. This endgame is modelled in an add-on calculation in which researchers tweak the para ...

32 | NewScientist | 3 November 2018 says. “But I don’t think they’re quite there yet.” The Danish group’s independent checks, pu ...

Discover how our species built a global civilisation, how we gained and lost by doing so, and what might happen next. CIVILISATI ...

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3 November 2018 | NewScientist | 35 A FEW years ago, I sat down in my home office and clicked through to a YouTube video. In it, ...

36 | NewScientist | 3 November 2018 The phenomenon first came to people’s attention in 2007, in an online forum thread titled “w ...

3 November 2018 | NewScientist | 37 mode network, which is poorly understood but known to be involved in daydreaming, and the te ...