New Scientist - USA (2019-07-13)

13 July 2019 | New Scientist | 3

On the cover

36 Apollo 11 50th anniversary: The moon How we got there What we learned Why we’re going back

Coming next week

Cosmic countdown The universe’s fate could be stranger than we thought

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Features

10 Computer genius Software mimics a legendary mathematician’s style

13 Murder in the Palaeolithic Modern forensics identifies an early homicide

18 China races ahead The nation leads the world when it comes to electric vehicles

21 Comment We need to think about how we die, says Clare Wilson

22 The columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein wants to save our helium

24 Letters Consciousness really does pose a hard problem

26 Aperture A kitsch celebration of the epic Soviet space dog flights

30 Culture columnist Simon Ings delights in The Hummingbird Project

51 Maker Use electronics to communicate with plants

52 Puzzles A moon-themed cryptic crossword, puzzles and quiz

53 Feedback Corr conspiracies and bus building

54 Almost the last word Readers discuss dinosaur noises and chickpea foam

56 Me and my telescope Sue Black on tech, women and knitting before it was cool

32 Everything you know about nutrition is wrong Why almost all food advice is fatally flawed

36 The moon 50 years on from the Apollo 11 landing, moon fever is back

46 Predictive policing The criminologist working to stop crime before it happens

The back pages

28 Art in the Anthropocene Olafur Eliasson is returning to Tate Modern

Vol 243 No 3238

32 Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong Convoluted studies Cherry-picked evidence Contradictory advice

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46 Predictive policing 14 Arctic on fire 8 More CRISPR babies 12 Hypersonic arms race 17 Very ancient Greeks

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