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REWILDING THE WORLD
The global movement
to bring back nature
Why negative people
rise to the top
HORRIBLE BOSSES
The final dispatch from
Cassini reveals all
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October 13 – 19, 2018
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GHOSTS IN OUR DNA
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On the cover
34 Rewilding the world
The global movement to bring
back nature
7
Horrible bosses
Why negative people rise
to the top
3
Leader
We have missed many chances to
limit warming. This may be our last
Features
30 The ghosts within
Completely
unknown species of human could
be hiding in your genome
34 Rewilding the world
The global
movement to bring back nature
39 The evil inside us
The Stanford
prison experiment’s mixed legacy
42 Exascale technology
Will the
next generation of computers be
too complex to use?
Marketing
Head of marketing
Lucy Dunwell
David Hunt, Chloe Thompson
News
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THIS WEEK
Three brains wired
together to play
Tetris.
Hubble
trouble. A price on carbon. Brazil
election. The end of Google+
NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
Can we
limit global warming to 1.5°C?
Hints of an exomoon. Medieval
construction crisis. Naysayers rise
to the top. Spray changes colour
when food is off. Faecal swap
helps organ transplants in mice.
Milk tolerant gene taking hold in
Chile. Creepy phone finger.
Saturn’s secrets. Time changes
when you move. Ecological
tensions in the Galapagos
Web development
Maria Moreno Garrido, Tom McQuillan,
Amardeep Sian
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13 Saturn’s secrets
The final dispatch from Cassini
reveals all
30 Ghosts in our DNA
Hidden inside you: the ancient
humans no one knew existed
3
Climate alarm
How many more warnings do
we need?
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Culture
46 No hot air
Saving Earth will take
hope, says Tomás Saraceno, who
inspires researchers with floating
art. PLUS: This week’s cultural picks
48 Newtworld is our world
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us in a terrifying future
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Exascale computers (42). Creepy
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26 APERTURE
Our fossil future
52 LETTERS
Reasons to lose weight
55 MAKE
Slippers that see in the dark
56 FEEDBACK
Octopuses on MDMA
57 THE LAST WORD
It’s a fin thing
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Analysis
22 INSIGHT
The rise of AI could
make climate change worse
24 COMMENT
We need to control
gene drives. US conservatives
are restarting the abortion wars
25 ANALYSIS
Wind power isn’t
going to warm the planet
13 October 2018 | NewScientist |
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