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IN SEARCH OF EUREKA
Has physics run out
of big ideas?
Unpacking the cult
of Marie Kondo
QUEEN OF TIDY
THE EXERCISE PARADOX
Why you can’t just
burn off extra calories
WEEKLY
19 January 2019
LOST CITIES OF
THE AMAZON
How the world’s greatest rainforest
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On the cover
38 In search of eureka
Has physics run out of big ideas?
22 Queen of tidy
Unpacking the cult of Marie Kondo
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30 The exercise paradox
Why you can’t just burn off
extra calories
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26 Lost cities of the Amazon
How the world’s greatest
rainforest was once a thriving
metropolis
4
China’s moon garden
New era begins as first plants
grown on lunar surface
3
Leader
Rational thinking can help avert
antibiotics disaster
Features
26 The people who built the
Amazon
How a lost civilisation
transformed the rainforest
30 Exercise paradox
You can’t just
burn off holiday gluttony
34 A hotter future
What the world
will look like with 1.5
°
C of warming
38 In search of eureka
Finding a
way out of the crisis in physics
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THIS WEEK
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Astronauts face superbugs.
Hackers might be stealing your
computer power. Gut bacteria
linked to allergies. Cuttlefish
embryos sense predators. Banned
toxins still threaten dolphins.
Mixed-up star system. Why do
drones cause so much trouble
for airports? Teachers snoop on
their pupils’ brains. Ghost X-rays.
Bacteria live in China’s smog.
Jupiter-sized black hole
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42 Cashing in on brains
A podcast
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44 Beyond words
Artists invited to
CERN capture concepts that can
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Regulars
24 APERTURE
Miniature Dumbo
52 LETTERS
Installing heat pumps
55 FROM THE ARCHIVES
The history of MDMA
56 FEEDBACK
Insect secret agents
57 THE LAST WORD
Wing commander
16 IN BRIEF
Stars become crystals.
Bees lose sleep. Ginger reduces
disgust. Pre-historic whale-eating
whale. Medieval female scribes
Analysis
20 INSIGHT
We are finally facing
down antibiotic resistance
22 COMMENT
The cult of Marie
Kondo. Hope for people with
type 2 diabetes
23 ANALYSIS
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fake news elected Donald Trump
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