New Scientist

In this week’s issue: Can a new theory of the past solve the biggest enigma in quantum mechanics, what can sleep paralysis demons reveal about consciousness and are we outsourcing our thinking to AI?

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Humans never evolved to read and write, and around 10 per cent of us are dyslexic. Now, we are uncovering the pathways underlying the condition, opening up new ways to support people who struggle to read newscientist.com/article/259480…

Franny Choi’s essay collection We Radiant Things is a careful exploration of the impact of cultural representations of robots, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan newscientist.com/article/259506…

Data from the Large Hadron Collider has revealed evidence of a long-sought particle process that serves as a guide into the realm of the smallest scales ever probed newscientist.com/article/259728…

Quantum theory assumes that only the present, not the past, has an influence on the future. Now there are hints that could be wrong, and if so some of theory's most bizarre implications could make a lot more sense.