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NEURONAUTS
Learning to control
our dreaming brains
THE OFF SWITCH
What really goes wrong
in chronic fatigue
BAD HUMAN!
Dogs don’t like people
who are mean
WEEKLY
February 18-24, 2017
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
Why you can’t be a brain floating in space
We’re close to revealing the universe’s
underlying symmetry
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CONTENTS
News
Volume 233 No 3113
This issue online
newscientist.com/issue/3113
Leader
5
In praise of slow science
8
Preventing
miscarriage
Conceiving at an
optimum time can
reduce the risk
News
6
UPFRONT
Overflowing US dam triggers evacuations.
TB drugs could cure all cases. Shortlist of
three landing sites for Mars 2020 rover
8 NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
Disembodied space brains unnecessary.
Foxes climb trees to hunt koalas. Metabolic
shift linked to chronic fatigue. Weather
enters virtual reality. Algae survive in space
for 15 months. NHS apps to manage
conditions at home. Swap bacteria to get
fresher armpits. AI attempts quantum
puzzle. Hottest lava is time capsule from
Earth’s birth. Robo-bees to help farmers.
Dogs dislike unfair people. Pedestrians
signal to stop automated cars
19 IN BRIEF
Nuclear test shows why moon is dry. Beetle
rides army ants. Antibiotics harm newborns
On the cover
28
The hidden
pattern
We’re close to revealing
the universe’s
underlying symmetry
JOHN FEDELE/GETTY
32
Neuronauts
Learning to control our
dreaming brains
10
The off switch
Cause of chronic fatigue
16
Bad human!
Dogs don’t like
mean people
9
Cosmic consciousness
No brains floating in space
8
Going full term
Miscarriage mystery
Analysis
22
Sex robots
Do love machines need to look
human to create a spark?
24 COMMENT
Truce between science and politics is over.
Lettuce crisis a taste of crop chaos to come
25 INSIGHT
A new twist in the Martian water mystery
Cover image
Simon C. Page
Aperture
Features
26
A giant floating ghost of whale skin
37
Bison to the
slaughter
Yellowstone’s
controversial cull
MICHELLE MCCARRON
Features
28
The hidden pattern
(see above left)
32
Neuronauts
Learning to control our
dreaming brains
37
Bison to the slaughter
(see left)
42 PEOPLE
James Lovelock’s planet-saving gizmo
Culture
44
Connecting the world
From cold wars to
hot junk, satellites remade our daily lives
45
Space, the final holiday frontier
A travel
guide for your first off-planet vacation
46
Making us
Human evolution owes a lot to
chance, climate and the changing landscape
Coming next week…
The coming plague
How to beat the next pandemic
Regulars
52
55
56
57
LETTERS
AI challenges our idea of science
SIGNAL BOOST
Fighting infection in babies
FEEDBACK
Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath project
THE LAST WORD
High flyers
Return of supersonic
Concorde is back without a bang
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