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1 June 2019 | New Scientist | 1

This week’s issue


On the
cover

13 Our lazy young sun 14 Ancient melons 40 Dino birds 13 Dogs against
Lyme disease 51 Make a propeller-powered car

46 Black hole atoms
Bouncing particle clouds
the size of a planet

42 Pong-ology
The hunt for the world’s
best smells

20 Femtech gold rush
Who’s cashing in on women’s
most intimate data?

Coming
next week

Into the mind’s eye
People with extreme
imaginations could teach us
how consciousness works

News


Views


Features


7 Animal avatars
Specially created flies guide
cancer treatment

9 Face recognition fightback
Is it too late to prevent the
spread of AI surveillance?

12 School nurse robot
The bot that checks the
health of thousands of
children daily

23 Comment
Singapore’s curb on fake news
sets a dangerous precedent

24 The columnist
Annalee Newitz on why the AI
apocalypse will be very weird

26 Letters
Why do we tolerate the
internet of broken things?

28 Aperture
A Welsh beaver that may end
up running wild in the UK

32 Culture
Building your own Mars colony
throws up tricky dilemmas

51 Maker
Build a propeller-powered car

52 Puzzles
Quick crossword, a disappearing
sock mystery and quiz

53 Feedback
Zombie climate apocalypse

54 Almost the last word
Burning rubber and heating toast

56 Me and my telescope
Tana Joseph on binary stars and
her cartoon motto

34 Light up your life
How spending too much time
indoors affects your health

40 The early bird
Archaeopteryx’s travels shaped
its evolution in an intriguing way

42 What makes a good smell?
Odour prospectors are on the
hunt for the ultimate scent

46 Black hole atoms
Asimina Arvanitaki on
planet-sized particles

The back pages


30 Art of data Ryoji Ikeda’s data-verse 1 at the Venice Biennale

Vol 242 No 3232
Cover image: Gun Karlsson

34 Light up your life
How getting more daylight
can transform your health

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