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This week’s issue
On the
cover
40
Secrets of the world’s
first civilisations
How AI is decoding the
lost stories of ancient
Mesopotamia
10
The DeepMind
breakthrough that
will transform biology
16
Can a new kind of vaccine
finally end the pandemic?
45
The hunt for hidden
asteroid craters
40
Feature
Vol 255 No 3398
Cover image: Julia Geiser
12
The search for the oldest galaxy
37
Why we love scary films
15
Do microclots cause
chronic fatigue?
“People say
the first half
of human
history
is only
recorded
in these
tablets”
News
9
Monkeypox deaths
First fatalities outside Africa
reported in current outbreak
18
Dirty bomb
How fraudsters in US could
obtain radioactive material
22
Asylum seekers
UK committee set to
recommend flawed
methods for estimating ages
Features
News
40
Cracking the code
AI is helping us decipher
incredible stories from
ancient Mesopotamia
45
Blasts from the past
Ludovic Ferrière on searching
for undiscovered craters
from asteroids
48
Rio, bravo
How children are key to fighting
infectious disease in Brazil
Views
29
Comment
A public information campaign
about the climate crisis is much
needed, says Bill McGuire
30
The columnist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
tackles space-time
32
Aperture
Mysterious creatures from the
bottom of the Pacific Ocean
34
Letters
We must prepare for future AIs
36
Culture
The challenge of returning lost
species to ecosystems
PS50ACE/GETTY IMAGES
The back pages
52
Maker
Ferment your own hot sauce
53
Puzzles
Try our crossword, quick quiz
and logic puzzle
54
Almost
the last word
How might space have gone
from finite to infinite?
56
Feedback
Why roboticists find dead spiders
truly gripping
56
Twisteddoodles
for New Scientist
Picturing the lighter side of life
21
Bird tracking
Tiny tags give us detailed insights on migration
6 August 2022 | New Scientist |
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