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It’s back, and more
dangerous than ever
String theory and loop
quantum gravity get hitched
ZIKA, SEASON 2
TYING THE KNOT
PREHISTORIC ANTIBIOTIC
WEEKLY
March 11-17, 2017
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CONTENTS
News
Volume 233 No 3116
This issue online
newscientist.com/issue/3116
Leader
5
Trump’s assault on climate science will not
make America great
8
Fresh Zika
threat looms
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News
6
UPFRONT
CO
2
forecast is worrying. Facebook’s suicide
prevention tools. China’s secret rocket launch
8 NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
Black holes from a huge star. Neanderthals
self-medicated. Robots learn when humans
spot mistakes. OCD makes it harder to learn
that things are safe. The best exercise to
rejuvenate cells. Fuzzy pulsars could reveal
quantum gravity. Brighter skies behind
crop boost. Device translates one person’s
emotions into another’s movements. App
checks for Parkinson’s in minutes. Foam
sucks up oil spills. Artificial embryo grown in
a dish. Bomb craters full of rare aquatic life
19 IN BRIEF
Plants with a sense of taste. A Shazam for
art. Autoimmune disease link to dementia
The virus is back
and more dangerous
than we thought
On the cover
32
Good hydrations
From water to
wheatgrass, what to
drink and what to avoid
Zika, season 2
It’s back, and more
dangerous than ever
28
Tying the knot
Loop quantum gravity and
string theory get hitched
9
Prehistoric antibiotic
Neanderthals knew the
medicinal power of mould
40
Can you feel it?
Not everybody feels
emotions the same way
8
Analysis
22
Sea change
Plankton can save the ocean,
but we need to save the plankton
24 COMMENT
The sepia-tinged lure of old tech.
Is bringing back extinct species a dead loss?
25 INSIGHT
Why we’re sending billionaires to the moon
Cover image
Guillaume Kurkdjian
Aperture
Features
26
The perfect fishy grin for crunching up prey
28
Tying the knot
The unlikely marriage
of string theory and
loop quantum gravity
DOMENIC BAHMANN
Features
28
Tying the knot
(see left)
32
Good hydrations
(see above left)
40 PEOPLE
Lisa Feldman Barrett’s gamut of emotions
Culture
44
A tragedy looms?
Individualism in the US
will reshape the nation’s green thinking
45
Competition
48-hour flash fiction challenge
46
Strange futures
What was hippie
modernism?
Coming next week…
What’s up with gravity?
More than a hound dog
The cosmic force isn’t making sense
What dog personality reveals about us
Regulars
52 LETTERS
More than NASA depended
on women
55 CROSSWORD
56 FEEDBACK
Self-confessed liars
57 THE LAST WORD
Grain train
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