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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From the Editors

Mission success! DART changes the direction of asteroid Dimorphos • Take that, Armageddon: humans can swat asteroids out of orbit after all.

Entangled photons and quantum • Physicists opened doors to another world.

DENISOVAN DNA • Scientist rewrote the book on Neanderthal genome.

How click chemistry changed the world • Chemists win prize for sharpening and slimming some of our best tools.

Evidence discovered that human evolution was driven by major environmental pressures • Study finds selection pressures likely caused some favourable genes to increase within human groups.

METAL TURNS VEXATIOUS PLASTIC INTO A SUSTAINABLE FEEDSTOCK • Chemists are taking on the irritating chemistry of polyethylene.

Dogs might smell when we're stressed • Dogs differentiate breath and sweat samples from people before and after a stress-inducing task.

If ‘DishBrain’ can learn to play pong, what does it mean for science? • Brains-on-a-chip have existed for years, but this is the first time cells have been stimulated and measured for a response.

FOCUS: AVIAN RESEARCH

Big three greenhouse gases hit record highs • Largest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations since measurements began nearly 40 years ago.

CAPTURING THE MAJESTY OF NATURE IN 3D • A publicly accessible encyclopedia of digital animal and plant models.

Supercomputer model predicts supercontinent to form in Pacific • Earth's continents collide every 600 million years.

EXTINCT ANIMAL WAS JUST HIDING UNDER A ROCK • Scientists find long-lost insect after an 80-year absence.

A neat way to store and purify hydrogen • It's not emissions-free, but it's a smart way to keep it.

ALL ABUZZ: HOW BEES AND OTHER SWARMING INSECTS MAKE POWER • Insect swarms can produce as much electric charge in the atmosphere as a thunderstorm cloud.

SMALL AND MIGHTY

Scientists create a flatworm-inspired medical adhesive • Eeew.

REALLY GOOD VIOLINS MAKE HIDDEN, SUBTLE SOUNDS • Researchers home in on the acoustics of fiddles.

Plastic from plant waste • A world where plastic actually replenishes the earth it came from? Now THAT would be a big thing …

Fluid thinking saving the planet • The revolutionary vortex fluidic device (VFD) has the world of chemistry in a spin,

Tower of power • Concentrated solar power (CSP) has had a difficult past, but it remains in the conversation as a renewable energy alternative. RACHEL WILLIAMSON examines CSP's history and possible future.

A LIGHT AT SEA • An astonishing variety of ocean creatures can generate light, and there's as much diversity in how they do it, as why, writes LISA-ANN GERSHWIN.

MARS ROCKS: COMING SOON TO A LABORATORY NEAR YOU • Material retrieved from the Moon and asteroids is all very fascinating, writes RICHARD A LOVETT, but it's samples from Mars, projected to reach Earth in the early 2030s, that has scientists most excited.

VIKING LIFE-TEST CONTROVERSY

HEROIC HELICOPTER

PREPARING TO SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS… ON EARTH

The medical WHAT-IF that could change clinical trials forever • The 2009 emergence of H1N1 led a few medical professionals to realise how unprepared they were. An informal group including an ICU doctor, care clinicians and a statistician met irregularly for more than a decade to...