In this issue, we visit leading labs to witness the astonishing and fast-paced global collaboration to find a COVID-19 cure; look at the maths of lockdown modelling; show you how to make your own DIY telescope to listen to the Milky Way, discover how bats stay forever young – and whether we can too; and enjoy a wealth of science to make, watch and do in these socially distant times.

In this issue        

  • We’re going into space to find an unexpectedly close possible location for alien life. Astrophysicist Sara Webb offers some surprising navigational tips.
• New technology is changing the way we see our planet’s old inhabitants. As Evrim Yazgin explains, t-rex is first in line in the makeover stakes: perhaps 
• The world’s tallest living objects are the height of the MCG lights. They’re islands in the sky with an ecosystem to match. Lauren Fuge climbs to the top of the planet’s largest blue-gum to enter this rarely seen world.
 • We all love talking to our parents, but how about after they’re dead? A wave of new companies promise to gather your loved ones’ stories and build them into an eternal AI for you to chat to. Charlotte Jee travels into this confronting virtual reality.
• Life on the Moon seems like sci-fi – but within 10 years a colony on the Moon is a likely reality. How? Jamie Seidel imagines a day in the life or our next lunar explorers: the tradies constructing our off-planet future.
 • A galaxy in the WA desert that can listen for aliens? Construction has started and both the scale and ambition are extraordinary. Jacinta Bowler travels to remote northwest to discover the SKA’s opportunities and its threats.
• Cool bananas – they’re in danger, they are radioactive and they’re also a berry. Prepare to be amazed by Imma Perfetto.

All this plus much more – from the sublime to the amazing, and always entertaining

Relax into summer and get a holiday’s worth of fresh science in the December-February edition of Cosmos – the science of everything.
Measure up to ‘towers of power’ – will they really make it as a renewable energy source? Concentrated solar power (CSP) has had a troubled past – how is its future looking?
Learn about REMAP-CAP, a remarkable new type of clinical trial that learns on the run. The story of its success through the pandemic is fascinating and little-known.
Meet the diverse band of marine animals that are bioluminescent. How do they conjure the magic trick that lights up the sea?
Consider the developing plans to get the precious rock and soil samples collected by Perseverance from Mars back to Earth for laboratory study.
Travel remote Top End waters with scientists and Indigenous rangers searching for marine megafauna.
Lay out the cutlery for a nibble at the nondescript duck weed that might turn out to be the perfect astronaut food for long-distance space travel.
Strap on the virtual reality goggles and go gaming – on Mars. Some new games have such ‘real’ Martian scenarios they’re almost like being there.
Add the latest research news, fun puzzlers, big ideas and new ways of seeing our world – all in this issue of Australia’s last science magazine.

Bound into the fresh season and prepare to be scientifically challenged on a range of matters with the spring edition of Cosmos – the science of everything.
 
Can artificial intelligence (AI) make art? You’d be excused for thinking so given what some platforms are capable of. But is it really art?  
Hear from the experts about the newly crowned Australian Mammal of the Year and learn why the winner, a tiny rare bat, is so cool.
Take a lingering look at some of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and rejoice again at the information that will flow from it in years to come.
Meet the former New York City graffiti artist who’s taken to painting in nature, literally using nature as a canvas and a palette.
Learn what’s known, and the many things that still aren’t, about sight. Have you ever considered that physics might play the most important role in seeing? 
Consider the evolutionary reasons why you grind your teeth – do chronic grinders need psychologists more than they need dentists?
Descend into the water column to spend time with of one of the world’s ancient mariners – the venerable nautilus.
Join one of Australia’s leading illustrators to understand why bird field guides still prefer old-fashioned illustrations to modern alternatives.
Strap yourself in for a look at what could be the future of machine racing – a Formula 1 style aerial series featuring electric-powered octocopters.
Why do we yawn – and why are yawns contagious? We explore the science of this most common and mysterious of reflexes.
All this and the latest science news, fun puzzlers and new ways of seeing our world, all in this issue of Australia’s last science magazine.

Trapped at home with the cold and wet weather? Explore the world of game changers. The perfect solution to the winter blues is Cosmos – the science of everything

A new, super-accurate measurement of the W boson might be the thing that changes physics forever.
Is it possible to make software that takes humanity’s diversity into account? A group of Australian researchers think so.
Just because we know how to edit genes doesn’t necessarily mean we should. But what if a bit of CRISPR Cas9 work is the best hope to save a species from extinction?
Feeling lonely is more than a passing thing. Research is teaching us that it affects us profoundly and chemically – right down to the cells.
From Antarctic water to Kenyan savannah, stunning images from the 2021 World Nature Photography Awards.
There’s plenty to celebrate about the possibility of driverless cars – and a fair bit to be worried about, in our excerpt from the new book Machines Behaving Badly.
A new paper has re-examined the evolutionary origins of monotremes – and it raises as many questions as it answers.Surely there are clear reasons – to do with talent and dedication – that explain success? As we discover, it’s not so easy.
How creatures prepare for the outside world, and why we should be paying attention.
 

Cosmos 95: The science of everything.

Feeling overwhelmed by the news? Want to feel good about the world again? What better way than with Cosmos – the science of everything amazing.

In this issue:

Get a sneak peak into the new dark matter detector being built in a gold mine in country Victoria.
Read about latest research into whether animals other than humans have a sense of humour.
Take a trip through space with NASA’s DART spacecraft, heading on an asteroid-destroying trajectory.
Investigate a startling new theory in physics: can time go backwards as well?
Go behind the scenes to find out about the complex business of staging a holographic concert.
How does popping candy work? Why do snorers not wake themselves up? In a new section, readers’ questions big and small are answered by our newsroom.
Explore the very, VERY tiny with an amazing new piece of Australian made technology that can watch bacteria in real time.
Learn about the international competition pitting two consciousness theories against each other in an attempt to finally define how our minds work.
Discover the animals (including us!) listening in before birth, and what they learn for their outside world future.

As summer comes around, what better way to celebrate it than with science?

• Explore blockbuster physics as Alan Duffy fact-checks some of our favourite movies. 
• Get the inside scoop on ice-cream chemistry 
• Discover the farm where you can walk amongst 97% of Australia’s gumtrees, which may hold the key to the future of the species
• Learn about the pea with the potential to lift Nigeria’s farmers out of poverty
• Cheer on the Australian robots taking on the world in an international search-and-rescue challenge
• Read about supernovas, from First Nations knowledge to the leaps in their detection and links to our expanding universe
• Find out about the job that’s even better than being an astronaut – lead investigator on an interplanetary mission

All this plus toothpaste deconstructed, the science of prophecy, the maths linking buses and particle physics, amazing photography, mindboggling puzzles latest science news and more.

Cosmos 93: The science of everything – summer sized.

Take the chance to explore the wider world with this issue of Cosmos:
• Meet the scientists that find elusive birds by amazing technology making sound made visible; 
• Unpack exactly what’s in Australia’s COVID vaccines and its links to some common foods; 
• Discover what ancient kauri trees teach us about past climates; 
• Learn what else mRNA might cure; 
• Follow Paul Davies on his cosmological mystery tour;
• Join the hunt for Earth’s earliest animals;
• First Nations’ Australians stories of the Southern Lights
• The exciting story of the failure of language and the birth of calculus plus
• A brief history of light; AI searches for the perfect song lyric and the secret history of watermelons. 

Life, the universe and everything– all in Issue 92 of Cosmos.

In issue 91, we gaze into deep geological time to understand Earth’s turning points and what it means for our future. 
 
• In the field of astronomy, Rick Lovett explains the amazing data being generated from the amazing Gaia space telescope
• Elizabeth Finkel delves into the new generation of archaeologists hunting for new hominin species inside our own DNA
• Paul Biegler reports from the frontier of mind-to-mind communication: from telepathic tetris-playing to military funding
• Lauren Fuge explores geological time and what it can tell us about the birth of life and our future.
• Paul Jackson explains why particle physicists are in a spin about the Theory of Everything
 
All this plus the latest from Mars, the chemistry of soap, Indigenous stories of our planets, amazing nature photography, the science of chronological dating and when you’ll be able to buy a flying car.

Think lunar with issue 90 of Cosmos: meet the Australian start-ups working for the next Moon landing, learn how Indigenous Australian astronomers see the Moon and take a nostalgic look at spacesuits; explained: why Australia’s suspended COVID vaccine might yet prove a winner; get the lowdown on Lithium; go caving to see a new way to i.d. species and get yeasty with the science of sourdough All thins and more science of everything this quarter.

In the summer issue of Cosmos we explore the big blue of the secret ocean world and looking up. James Bradley reports on the amazing intelligence of fish species and what that means for our understanding of us and Sophie Calabretto explains the mathematics behind the predator perfection of sharks. Meet the scientists using the planet’s largest animals to find one of the smallest and most prolific – krill; go behind the scenes in the new frontier of space with Australian cubesat exploration and discover Indigenous animal connections to the stars.

Get your universal travel tags ready for issue 88 of Cosmos. Take a 5 billion km journey to near-Earth asteroids; view the night skies through the eyes of Indigenous Australian astronomers; smash into particle physics’ big mystery through supersymmetry; hear the latest from the hunt for a COVID vaccine; get the buzz about bee chemistry and ponder the pokie in your pocket: are you master of – or slave to – your smartphone?

Ready for some discovery? Cosmos Issue 86 will introduce you to the Internet of Disposal Things, the lost women of Australian astronomy, the ethical minefield of bioengineering embryo-like structures, and the art of teaching physics to Tibetan monks. It’s also eyes to the sky to look at clouds, why we need so many satellites and how birds are catching illegal fishing. 

Summer reading - sorted! Cosmos Issue 85 explores travelling to new worlds. Meet the new Australian species being discovered near you every single day. Go behind the scenes at the Large Hadron Collider. Ski with science instead of snow. Plus, summer fun: tennis technology, the science of fireworks and the Star Wars Phantom Menace that dwells within us all. 

Peer down the microscope in the latest issue of Cosmos. Meet the human cyborg who 'hears’ colour. Go wild with wolf packs and the researchers battling to protect them. Learn how a synchrotron – a mini Large Hadron Collider – helps palaeontologists see through stone to new discoveries. And take a pictorial jaunt around Scotland's Orkney islands, a megawatt success story for sustainable electricity generation.

In this latest issue, we look at the history and future of science. We revisit the events that made Albert Einstein a global superstar and examine the day NASA's space station came crashing down. Looking ahead, in-depth reports into two of the most exciting fields in current research: human hibernation and quantum biology, will give you plenty to ponder.

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on:
–  Manufacturing in space: factories of the future
– Brian Cox on activism
– A brief history of spacetime
– ‘Osteo-biographies‘ of the dead at Stonehenge
– Alex the Astronaut meets Alex, an Astronaut

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on: 
- Inside an octopus' alien mind
- The plastics problem
- Is cosmology stuck?
- Gallery: fossils in amber
- Calling the stem cell race
- Ray guns are here
 
And much more!

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on: 
- Juno’s new Jupiter
- Hello quantum world
- Inflammation overload
- Gallery: arthropods see things differently
- The feathered dinosaur revolution
- Clouds predict global warming
 
And much more!

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on:
- Accelerating coral evolution
- Hacking human performance
- Resurrecting the thylacine
- Gallery: fractals in nature
- The entangled web: staging the second quantum revolution
- Synthetic life

And much more!

In this issue:
• The art of Patricia Piccinini
• The search for cosmic strings
• Gallery: five artists comment on their science-themed work
• Mindbending drugs offering therapeutic relief
• Profile: Hiroshi Ishiguro and his look-alike android
• Australia’s jurassic park
And much more!

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on:

- Understanding autism
- Plate tectonics and early life
- The current state of the search for dark matter
- The future of space exploration

Cosmos issue 75 – Weapons against superbugs
This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on:
• The next generation of weapons that we’ll need to outsmart superbugs
• The anti-ageing elixirs promising to prolong youth
• The empirical question in astrophysics: how big is space?
• The origins of entanglement
• Blind faults, missing links and ever-building stress on the San Andreas fault
And much more!

Cosmos issue 74 – Jurassic flight school
This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on:
• The fossil discoveries in China that are rewriting the history of flight
• The quantum oracle: How to predict and avert failure
• The race to build an even bigger hadron collider
• The tricky science of forecasting volcanic eruptions
• The giant planet that is likely lurking on the fringes of the Solar System
And much more!

• The telescope that goes by the name Square Kilometre Array
• The hopes of new cures from ‘gene therapy 2.0’ CRISPR
• Lessons from Mars – our picture of the Red Planet has never been clearer
• A profile of climate advocate Ross Garnaut
• Why is the sea salty? 
And much more!

*Parallel worlds: science or sci-fi?

*Venomous: how Earth's deadliest creatures mastered biochemistry

*A second chance for Nuclear power? 

*A palaeoclimatologist using stalagmites to understand climate

*Why do paper cuts hurt so much

*And much more!

*Breaking the two-hour marathon barrier – with science

*Solving a whale shark mystery with the help of the stars and citizen science

*Fracking's surprising origins

*Madagascar takes a cue from Australia in battling a toad invasion

*Why stars sparkle

*And much more!

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on: 

• Designer babies – An ethicist makes a case for editing the human genome

• Agents of doom – Why have some monster volcanoes triggered global catastrophes and others have not?

• Powered by sorghum – The ancient crop that yields both food and fuel could help struggling farmers

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on: 

• Darwin's Garden – the test bed for his theory of natural selection

• The search for antimatter

• The breakthrough recipe for turning immune cells into a cancer-fighting army

This issue of Cosmos Magazine contains feature articles on: 
• Beyond gravitational waves
•  Animals that change with the climate
• The end of gene patents

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