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America’s driest river returns from the dead
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How to unlearn
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It gets ill so you
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WORLD IN HER HANDS
Meet the woman with the
toughest job on the planet
BAD CALL OF THE WILD
When evolution lures
animals to their doom
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Living planets don’t need to be like Earth
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CONTENTS
Volume 221 No 2960
This issue online
newscientist.com/issue/2960
News
6 UPFRONT
UK’s shale gas bounty. Gene tests for twin
astronauts. Second baby cleared of HIV
8 THIS WEEK
Earth raises its plasma shields. Most Mars
meteorites traced to one crater. Early
warning Alzheimer’s test. Climate proves
highly sensitive to greenhouse gases.
Should OCD be treated as an addiction?
Shrink detectors to find space-time ripples
11 INSIGHT
Concussion crisis: Rugby union players
warned of long-term damage
17 IN BRIEF
Monkeys say no to girls. Was dark matter a
dino-killer? Comet-shepherding exoplanet
News
8
Just add water
America’s driest river
returns from the dead
On the cover
Technology
34
8 Just add water
America’s driest river
returns from the dead
46 Digital clone
It gets ill so you get better
30 World in her hands
The planet’s toughest job
43 Bad call of the wild
Doomed by evolution
38 No place like home
Living planets don’t
need to be like Earth
21
F1 cars must use energy tricks to hit top
speeds. Teach a robot trunk to pick fruit.
Facebook’s drones. 3D-printed house
Detrain
your brain
How to unlearn habits,
fears and cravings
Aperture
26 Revenge of the cute furball
Opinion
28 Keep it green Reg Platt says we don’t have
to pay the earth for clean energy
29 One minute with… David Kohls Why I
gave away my collection of 250,000 fossils
30 World’s toughest job We can stop global
warming, says Christiana Figueres
32 LETTERS Who’s in pain? Liquid assets
Cover image
Sam Falconer
Features
Features
34 Detrain your brain (see above left)
38 No place like home (see left)
43 Bad call of the wild When evolution
lures animals to their doom
46 Digital clone It gets ill so you can get better
38
No place
like home
Living planets don’t
need to be like Earth
CultureLab
50 Wet, wet, wet We need the right thinking
to deal with the world’s coming water crisis
51 Believe it The weird world of improbability
Regulars
5 LEADER There is growing optimism about
the world agreeing a climate deal next year
56 FEEDBACK Michael Gove and The Beatles
57 THE LAST WORD High growth
52 JOBS & CAREERS
Coming next week…
The invisible issue
A definitive guide to worlds you can’t see
Fields of dreams
The plants that grow metals
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