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READY FOR ANYTHING
ROBO-SHERLOCK
How to train your brain
to survive disaster
AI detective
hunts for clues
Gas giant springs
some big surprises
BY JUPITER!
WEEKLY
May 13-19, 2017
WORKIN’ NINE TO FOUR
The surprising benefits of a 6-hour day
WHAT’S THE POINT
OF CONSCIOUSNESS?
The accidental evolution of our unique minds
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CONTENTS
News
Volume 234 No 3125
This issue online
newscientist.com/issue/3125
Leaders
5
The stakes are growing for scientific wagers.
Less work, more school?
8
RoboCop gets
on the case
An AI is helping police
hunt for clues in
crime scene data
ASHLEY COOPER/GETTY
News
6
UPFRONT
Measles outbreak. Rocket watches the sun.
Citymapper bus. EPA’s science sackings
8 NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
Do old brains get a boost from cannabis?
Most complete
Homo naledi
skeleton found.
Why we turn mean online. Turtle-riding
robots. Nanofridge for quantum computers.
New York rats on the pill. Jupiter’s massive
storms and magnetism. Synth proteins that
work. Mini masterpieces pack in pixels. Atlas
of the underworld. Robot bridge inspector.
Radiotherapy colours man’s dreams
18 IN BRIEF
Snowball Earth’s freshwater seas. Eyeball
fluke is fish controller. Baby mind reader
On the cover
28
What’s the point
of consciousness?
The accidental
evolution of our
unique minds
32
Ready for anything
Disaster brain training
8
Robo-Sherlock
AI turns detective
12
By Jupiter!
Gas giant surprises
22
Workin’ nine to four
Benefits of a 6-hour day
36
Odds on
Ten breakthroughs that
are worth a flutter
Analysis
22
The optimum working day
Shorter hours
are inevitable, but is that good?
24 COMMENT
Why SETI should look closer to home.
Space-nuke terror talk more fiction than fact
25 INSIGHT
Can a small lawsuit stop an opioid epidemic?
Cover image
Credit is Richard Wilkinson
Aperture
26
The gargoyle of the sea
Features
Features
28
What’s the point of consciousness?
(see above left)
32
Ready for anything
(see left)
36
Odds on
Ten breakthroughs worth a flutter
40 PEOPLE
Shunichi Yamashita and Fukushima’s
psychological fallout
32
Ready for
anything
How to train your brain
to survive disaster
PAOLO PELLEGRIN/MAGNUM PHOTOS
Culture
42
Real deal
As millions queue to see art, will
tech help or hinder access to originals?
44
Wall to end all walls
Ridiculing Trump’s
border plan might make it more likely
Coming next week…
Concentrate!
Take control of your wandering mind
Regulars
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LETTERS
Light of our lives
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THE LAST WORD
Mossies with muscle
Zombie microbes
The life forms resurrected after millions of years
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