Cosmos Magazine

Global science, from a unique Australian perspective.

Cosmos Magazine

From the Editors

DIGEST • Science news from around the globe (and even further)

Scientists discover the starfish's head • Can you spot it?

Melanoma scientists named Australians of the Year • Their work made advanced melanoma a curable disease.

The first marine fish has been declared extinct in a tipping point for marine biodiversity

Dingoes had "almosthuman status" in First Nations communities • Burial sites are evidence of close bonds.

Why are languages louder in the tropics?

We've "lost control" of West Antarctica • Rapid melt of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may now be unavoidable.

Second OMG cosmic ray particle breaks physics again • Extremely high energy cosmic ray zips through Utah.

Wheee! Bird takes 1,000-km spin through typhoon

Planet-forming disc around star seen beyond our galaxy for first time • First insight into planet formation in other galaxies.

Animal-to-human viral epidemics increasing • Death toll could increase 12-fold by 2050.

Focus: Moon

Flesh-eating Jurassic lampreys found in China

New visions

Turning up the heat

Experience the White Continent • A scientific expedition with Scenic and Cosmos

Electrons trapped in 3D crystal for first time • The crystal was then turned into a superconductor.

First chimeric primate live birth in China

Soft robotic hand made using new 3D inkjet printing system • The hand has human-like bones and tendons.

JWST snaps silky new picture of the Crab Nebula

Human fossil discovery upends history of Palaeolithic Europe • Bone fragments push migration timeline way back.

What happened NEXT? • Over the years, we’ve reported on thousands of tantalising research projects – and we thought we’d ask a few where they went next. Up first: our writer Jacinta Bowler on the dark matter lab being built in an old mine.

Safer cyber • Cryptologist and cyber security expert Willy Susilo explores a new paradigm for pragmatic cloud computing.

This place rocks • To geology professor Alan Collins, the Earth’s history is legible in the land around us. Come hiking to his favourite place to see the world -present and past – through his eyes.

Sounds of the slow-rolling sea • A galaxy-scale telescope has revealed that the universe is awash with a low, constant hum of gravitational waves. Will this change what we know about cosmic history? And will it change how we do astronomy? Sara Webb reports.

Wild weather • News headlines are constantly finding new words for extreme weather events, but how much of this lingo is meaningful and how much is just a muddled message from meteorologists? Nate Byrne tells us what works – and what bombs.

EVERYTHING STARTS WITH THE SEED • A global organisation working to rescue vegetable diversity neatly combines old and new techniques and technologies, reports Natalie Parletta.

r[AI]diology • Artificial intelligence is transforming breast cancer detection – and Australia is leading the revolution. Mark Pesce talks to the researchers on the frontline.

A year in Antarctica • It may feel like the edge of the world, but Antarctica is in many ways the heart of this planet’s systems. Come spend a year on the ice and see for yourself.

Science in the balance • Australia used to punch above its weight in research. But as Jacinta Bowler reports, the system is roughing up young researchers and seasoned academics alike, with troubling results for the science. So what’s the way forward?

A glimmer of light • Amid the burgeoning excitement around bionic eye technology, doubts linger...