GETTING THE WORD OUT
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CONTENTS<br />
Volume 230 No 3067<br />
This issue online<br />
newscientist.com/issue/3067<br />
News<br />
6<br />
Unlocking the<br />
essence of life<br />
We’ve made the tiniest<br />
genome that works<br />
On the cover<br />
30<br />
Our impossible<br />
galaxy<br />
To explain our cosmic<br />
backyard, we need to<br />
break gravity<br />
Cover image<br />
Lynette Cook/Science Photo Library<br />
Features<br />
34<br />
Getting the<br />
word out<br />
Stuttering starts<br />
deep in the brain<br />
SERGE PICARD/AGENCE VU/CAMERAPRESS TOM DEERINCK & MARK ELLISMAN/NCMIR/UCSD<br />
8 Frozen stiff<br />
Did an interstellar cloud<br />
kill off the dinosaurs?<br />
36 Imprecision engineering<br />
To make computers<br />
better, make them worse<br />
40 You swine!<br />
Porkers wreak havoc<br />
6 Minimal life<br />
Tiniest working genome<br />
34 Getting the word out<br />
Stuttering and the brain<br />
Coming next week…<br />
On the road<br />
Is migration really a crisis?<br />
Black holes unmasked<br />
Frozen universe reveals their secrets<br />
Leaders<br />
3 Exploring the essentials of life isn’t about<br />
playing god. To err should be inhuman<br />
News<br />
4 UPFRONT<br />
Could bomb sensors stop another Brussels?<br />
Fast Antarctic ice melt could see catastrophic<br />
sea rise. Gecko Grippers head to space<br />
6 THIS WEEK<br />
Did a cosmic cloud kill the dinosaurs? Mars<br />
had a short-lived ocean. Prairie dog serial<br />
killers. The twins who felt fear for the first<br />
time. Lock up CO 2 in building materials. How<br />
brain-zapping works. Bright spots on Ceres.<br />
Stacking oranges in 24 dimensions<br />
15 IN BRIEF<br />
Migrating birds stay in UK for longer. Cats<br />
give us rage. Ghost galaxies. Exercise for a<br />
young brain. Unlocking ancient scroll library<br />
Technology<br />
18 Get immersed as first virtual reality games<br />
go on sale. Inside the factory of the future<br />
Aperture<br />
22 What the Zika virus looks like – probably<br />
Opinion<br />
24 Hinkley’s point Paul Ekins urges rethinking<br />
the world’s biggest nuclear power project<br />
24 US in Cuba Michael Clegg on a hopeful start<br />
25 INSIGHT Londoners’ toxic air nightmare<br />
28 Roborescue It’s time robots took their place<br />
in search and rescue, says Robin Murphy<br />
Features<br />
30 Our impossible galaxy (see above left)<br />
34 Getting the word out (see left)<br />
36 Imprecision engineering To make<br />
computers better, try making them worse<br />
40 You swine! Problem porkers wreak havoc<br />
worldwide<br />
CultureLab<br />
42 Animal crackers Pretending to be other<br />
creatures is an altogether human game<br />
43 A drug to make us good Hunting for<br />
morality in a neuroscientific mess<br />
Regulars<br />
52 LETTERS Theory proposes<br />
56 FEEDBACK When is a drug not a drug?<br />
57 <strong>THE</strong> LAST <strong>WORD</strong> Atomic bonds<br />
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