New Scientist - USA (2019-11-16)

20 The hidden harm of internet TV Streaming video services like

Apple TV+ are on the rise - but so are their carbon emissions

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30 How the world got wired Our sleep-deprived times

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38 The hardest problem

in climate change

Our world is built on a dirty

secret. Here’s how to clean it up

42 The aliens among us

Why radically different life

forms really could be living

right here on Earth

News

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Features

8 The largest ever ape

The real King Kong was a

cousin of today’s orangutans

12 Dead car batteries

How to prevent a mountain

of electric vehicle waste

16 Personal genomics

Should we sequence babies’

DNA? And can your genes help

you eat more healthily?

23 Comment

Beware the genetic sting,

says Erin Murphy

24 The columnist

Annalee Newitz on Facebook’s

threat to democracy

26 Letters

Some solutions to the

minimoon conundrum

28 Aperture

A giant baobab tree hollowed

out to store water

30 Culture

Disturbing show weighs

the impact of a 24/7 world

51 Stargazing at home

Watch a meteor shower

52 Puzzles

Quick crossword, a number

puzzle and the quiz

53 Feedback

Flower power and erratic

chromatics: the week in weird

54 Almost the last word

Why the freezer door is hard

to open: readers respond

56 The Q&A

Google scientist Dan Russell

on our search habits

34 Dark matter

The universe’s invisible stuff

may be far stranger than we

imagined, says Dan Hooper

38 The hardest problem

in climate change

Concrete and steel are an

opportunity for climate victory

42 The aliens among us

Could underground microbes

stretch the boundaries of life?

The back pages

Vol 244 No 3256

Swipe: Jules Julien

Photograph: Benjamin Lee

34 Dark matter

We still haven’t found it.

Our theories are

falling apart. Is it time to

rethink the universe?

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11 New Zealand’s best bird 12 Music

that breaks Alexa 14 But is it

(Neanderthal) art? 18 Impossible

sense of smell

This week’s issue

38 Features

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