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12 Protecting wildlife Global summit considers bans on saiga trade

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On the

cover

14 Cut carbs, cut headaches

Ketogenic diet could

help migraines

38 Melding minds

Artificial intelligence is

making humans smarter

42 Electric plants

China’s high-tech plan

to boost crop yields

New

Scientist

Live

Christiana Figueres

talks about next steps

on climate change.

For more information,

see: newscientistlive.com

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Cover image: Oska

34 Have we got the

universe the wrong

way round?

A radical rethink of

quantum theory

12 Elephants, antelopes...

mammoths?

Summit debates big

mammal protection

6 Miraculous moss 8 Alien biofluorescence 20 Marketing in space

7 More quantum weirdness

This week’s issue

News

Views

Features

7 Entangled worlds

Quantum theorem may prove

there are parallel universes

9 Hi-tech healthcare

Can artificial intelligence really

transform hospitals?

15 Smart weapons

The US Army is developing

AI missiles that find their

own targets

23 Comment

The warring Brexit sides

must compromise, says

Andre Geim

24 The columnist

Annalee Newitz calls for

the demise of YouTube

26 Letters

We need to talk about the

natural pesticides in our food

28 Aperture

The transient beauty of

iridescent bubbles captured

30 Culture

Jennifer Gunter on why she

wrote The Vagina Bible

51 Maker

How to create a rain alarm

52 Puzzles

Cryptic crossword, a moon

problem and the quick quiz

53 Feedback

Nature on the attack and unusual

units: the week in weird

54 Almost the last word

A safari guide’s visual skills, and

sneezing – readers respond

56 The Q&A

Catherine Lubetzki, multiple

sclerosis research pioneer

34 Have we got the universe

the wrong way round?

Lee Smolin on the theory lurking

beyond quantum physics

38 Melding minds

AI is changing the way we think

42 Electric plants

Can electricity boost crop yields?

46 Fighting malaria

Brian Gitta’s new test could save

millions of lives

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