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Dinosaurs were even
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WEEKLY
30 March 2019
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THE TRIBE THAT
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CONTENTS
newscientist.com/issue/3223
Management
Executive chairman
Bernard Gray
Chief executive
Nina Wright
Finance director
Jenni Prince
Chief technology officer
Chris Corderoy
Marketing director
Jo Adams
Human resources
Shirley Spencer
Non-executive director
Louise Rogers
Publishing and commercial
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Chris Martin
Lynne Garcia, Richard Holliman, Justin Viljoen,
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Volume 241 No 3223
News
Meet the heaviest
T. rex
ever found
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Recruitment sales manager
Mike Black
Key account managers
Viren Vadgama,
Isabelle Cavill, Nicola Cubeddu
US sales manager
Jeanne Shapiro
On the cover
14 No place like home
Exoplanets aren’t looking very
friendly for life
38 CSI botany
Meet the plant expert who
solves murders
7
Giant
T. rex
Dinosaurs were even bigger
than we thought
6
29 The tribe that rewrote history
DNA reveals the untold story of the
ultimate Stone Age conquerors
13 Are black holes real?
And four other questions
gravitational waves will answer
Plus
Billion-volt thunderstorm (18).
Sun bears pull faces (18).
Your guide to space junk (26).
The hunt for water on Mars (6)
3
Leaders
Our most pressing space challenge
is to clean up orbit. Healthcare
technology must be shown to work
Features
26 Your guide to space junk
Cleaning up the skies overhead
will be crucial for future launches
29 History of violence
The devastating conquest
written in ancient DNA
34 Life’s other code
Deciphering
the sugars on our cells could lead
to a whole new type of medicine
38 CSI botany
Jane Bock is a
crime-fighting plant scientist
Marketing
Head of campaign marketing
James Nicholson
David Hunt, Poppy Lepora, Chloe Thompson
Head of customer experience
Emma Robinson
Head of data analytics
Tom Tiner
News
4
THIS WEEK
Thousands of
vulnerabilities found on UK
government websites. Boeing 737
glitch. British pollinators in crisis
NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
AIs take
on animals. Hunting water on
Mars. Arctic warming worsens city
smog. World’s largest
T. rex
fossil.
Space rock mysteries revealed.
Can genetic predictions improve
healthcare? Google gets into
video games. LIGO returns to hunt
black holes. Pollution may reduce
sperm quality. No life-friendly
exoplanets. Child abuse brain link
to depression.
Web development
Maria Moreno Garrido, Tom McQuillan,
Amardeep Sian
New Scientist Live
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+44 (0)20 7611 1206
Email
live@newscientist.com
Events director
Adrian Newton
Creative director
Valerie Jamieson
Sales director
Jacqui McCarron
Exhibition sales manager
Charles Mostyn
Event manager
Henry Gomm
Culture
42 The inventor
HBO’s new
documentary explores the rise and
fall of medical company Theranos
PLUS: This week’s cultural picks
44 “The body is a spaceship”
Artist Antony Gormley takes us
skiing on the moon
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24 APERTURE
Idai’s trail of destruction
52 LETTERS
A significant source of earned
dogmatism
55 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
56 FEEDBACK
Unusual solution to knife crime
57 THE LAST WORD
Many ridges to cross
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17 IN BRIEF
Exploding star shoots
through space. Robot swarms.
Skin pigment turned into electrical
wires. Anaesthetic may help PTSD
Analysis
20 INSIGHT
UK’s online
pornography block could be a
privacy nightmare
22 COMMENT
Genetic studies are
too white. Media must do more
to prevent suicides
23 ANALYSIS
We need to stop
travelling to cut climate emissions
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