Cosmos Magazine

Cosmos Magazine is an award-winning literary science magazine, published in Australia but with a global reach. Cosmos Magazine presents the exciting world of science in a way that everyone can enjoy, with beautiful pictures and clear explanations of the latest developments. Discover the universe around you and what makes it tick.

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“Better than our most optimistic prediction” – JWST’s first images • Images of a non-descript star within our own galaxy reveal the James Webb telescope’s deep-field capabilities.

Warming up the underwater brood period • Octopuses may be congregating near warm-water vents to improve their reproductive success.

FOR NAVIGATIONAL SMARTS, AVOID A GRID-CITY CHILDHOOD

Armour for good bacteria against antibiotics • Genetically engineered probiotic protects the gut microbiome and reduces likelihood of antibiotic resistance spreading.

FOCUS: FUNGI

THE VENUS OF WILLENDORF’S LONG JOURNEY • Researchers pin the statuette’s origin to Italy or Ukraine.

Seagrass meadows store much more carbon than previously realised • Sweet secrets of seagrass ecosystems revealed in new study.

BirdBot gets a walk-up start • Robot demonstrates that avian-inspired gait is energy efficient and beautifully balanced.

WOULD YOU WEAR A T-SHIRT THAT COULD LISTEN TO YOU? • Futuristic fabrics might let your clothes eavesdrop on you.

Tyrant Lizard Emperor, King, and Queen: T-rex might be three species • New analysis of old bones suggests it’s time make way for more members of the dinosaur royal family.

HOT POTATO NEWS • Surprisingly complex potato genome finally sequenced.

Experts use model to offer radical solution to plastic waste: don’t reduce – just stop • Even reduction measures won’t stop alarming plastic pollution increase.

Sandy the pure desert dingo • International collaboration of researchers sequence the genome of the pure desert dingo.

Astronomers discover a sideways black hole • New finding calls theories of black hole formation into question.

SMALL WONDER

Printable polymers for (future) biodegradable batteries • Researchers inch towards a biodegradable way to power small devices.

WHAT WOULD IT FEEL LIKE TO PAT A DINOSAUR? • New laser imaging study gets us a step closer to answering this essential question.

MALE BIRTH CONTROL? • A non-hormonal contraceptive shows promise in male mice

Earth + warming = speedier ocean • Sixty-six million years of geological data suggests heating makes ocean currents stronger.

Mammal of the year • At last, an election you can actually get excited to vote about: Australian Mammal of the Year.

Did the biggest carnivorous dinosaur sink and swim? • Bone density analysis offers a likely answer to a hotly debated behaviour.

Testing the Dark Emu hypothesis • The next big thing in Australian archaeology is hidden in plain sight.

School of rocks • How are we here? Why is the Earth the way it is? The way life arose in our solar system remains a fascinating mystery. Beset but not daunted by kangaroo scat, this astrogeologist is piecing together the origins of life on Earth, meteorite by meteorite.

HEAVYWEIGHT PARTICLE • The announcement in April of new measurements of the W boson has particle physicists abuzz. MARTIN WHITE gets the knowledge collider up to peak energy to examine what we know and what the new W measurements might mean.

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