8 June 2019 | New Scientist | 3
This week’s issue
On the
cover
9 Romans and climate change 15 Bees build plastic nest 11 Elephants use
smell to count 15 How to settle the galaxy
38 Extreme imagination
The people with a mind’s eye
as vivid as cinema
8 Quantum leaps are real
And now we can control them
14 Complete regeneration
The animal that rebuilds itself
from scratch
Coming
next week
Walk this way?
Why 10,000 steps isn’t the
right target – and what is
News
Views
Features
9 Roman climate change
How the empire’s activities
cooled Europe
11 The heavens align
The planets may control the
sun’s activity
13 Happiness budget
Will New Zealand’s plans to
prioritise mental health over
wealth work?
23 Comment
DNA shouldn’t be used as
a marketing tool
24 The columnist
Are we really eating more
sugar, wonders James Wong
26 Letters
Surgery is risky enough
without doing it over 5G
28 Aperture
Dinosaur that looks like
hellhound demigod
32 Culture
What happens when our
inner world fractures?
51 Maker
Code your own fortune teller
52 Puzzles
Cryptic crossword, a three-dart
problem and a quiz
53 Feedback
Shaman shaming
54 Almost the last word
Hand drying and car crashes
56 Me and my telescope
Zoe Laughlin on wondrous
materials and Dolly Parton
34 Mirrorverse
A universe identical to our own
may be all around us
38 The mind’s eye
Some people’s imaginations are
as vivid as cinema
42 Teabag ecology
The humble teabag is key to an
ambitious new experiment
44 AI shouldn’t scare us
Meet Yoshua Bengio, a founding
father of artificial intelligence
The back pages
20 Exporting sunshine Hydrogen power could help Australia go green
Vol 242 No 3233
Cover image: Chris Gash
34 Inside the mirrorverse
Welcome to the
parallel reality that’s
hiding in plain sight
44 ‘AI is really dumb’
An audience with
deep-learning pioneer
Yoshua Bengio
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