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Cosmos Magazine

Summer 2018
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.

CONTRIBUTORS

The enthralling space between art and science

Bubbles tell the tale

2017’s biggest story • Why the world’s astronomers are so excited about colliding neutron stars.

ET search finds nothing • The hunt for alien microwaves finds only silence.

Universe’s underlying symmetry still baffling • Magnetic differences between matter and antimatter do not explain why the universe actually exists.

Glass skeletons point to better electronics • Ancient organisms may hold the key to designing tomorrow’s devices.

Chernobyl’s blast was nuclear after all • Isotope analysis concludes plant’s first disastrous explosion was not steam.

Gerbils count the beat, unconsciously • Beat perception may not be just a high-level brain function as thought.

Oysters can detect deep notes • Researchers establish the molluscs react to sounds, with implications for food supply.

Deep Purple song now one for the ages • A famous rock song has been successfully stored in DNA.

Rising sea levels will submerge Kakadu • CSIRO modelling reveals grave threat to Australia’s World Heritage asset.

OUR FIRST DETECTION OF A NEUTRON STAR COLLISION

Neanderthals got by with a little help from their friends • Not brutes: skeletal analysis indicates our closest extinct relatives had a pronounced caring streak.

A new member of the hominid family • Skeletal and DNA evidence identifies a third species of orangutan.

Why hot water can freeze faster than cold • A puzzling phenomenon first noted by Aristotle has finally been solved.

Why male woolly mammoths dominate the fossil record • Gender bias provides a big clue to the extinct animals’ social behaviour.

When neutrons scatter, the future of energy is revealed • Materials science has a crucial role in the transition to renewable energy sources.

Achievement is limited only by imagination, and beamline numbers

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DEGREE MAKES • As average temperatures creep up, climate scientists spy trouble at the far end of the bell curve. Early results from the nascent science of extreme heatwaves are startling, explains MICHAEL LUCY.

Launch, land, repeat • Reusable rockets can slash the cost of getting into space. CATHAL O’CONNELL explains how the revolutionary technology works.

IT’S WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE • Facial recognition technology is a booming business, driven primarily by government interest in surveillance. Corporations are also investing in it for commercial purposes. Scientists, however, see other potential applications, both good and bad. TIM WALLACE faces four of them.

WHEN SCIENCE MEETS ART • Feast your eyes on these beautiful works of art that happen to have been inspired by science.

SUZANNE ANKER

LIA HALLORAN

MARGARET WERTHEIM

DANIEL ZELLER

XAVIER CORTADA

VIEWPOINT • “AS A GUIDE TO WHAT IS GOOD, EMOTIONS HAVE A VERY CHEQUERED HISTORY”

NO ‘PURE’ REASON TO DIG INTO BUTTER • Findings upending guidelines on fat demand scrutiny.

THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE • How colliding neutron stars proved all are equal before the law of gravity.

GETTING A GRIP ON THE YUCK FACTOR • Personable pigs pose some perplexing problems.

ARCHITECTS FIND THE ARTIST WITHIN • Innovation in materials and design has liberated creativity.

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES • A science writer comes to...


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Science

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English

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.

CONTRIBUTORS

The enthralling space between art and science

Bubbles tell the tale

2017’s biggest story • Why the world’s astronomers are so excited about colliding neutron stars.

ET search finds nothing • The hunt for alien microwaves finds only silence.

Universe’s underlying symmetry still baffling • Magnetic differences between matter and antimatter do not explain why the universe actually exists.

Glass skeletons point to better electronics • Ancient organisms may hold the key to designing tomorrow’s devices.

Chernobyl’s blast was nuclear after all • Isotope analysis concludes plant’s first disastrous explosion was not steam.

Gerbils count the beat, unconsciously • Beat perception may not be just a high-level brain function as thought.

Oysters can detect deep notes • Researchers establish the molluscs react to sounds, with implications for food supply.

Deep Purple song now one for the ages • A famous rock song has been successfully stored in DNA.

Rising sea levels will submerge Kakadu • CSIRO modelling reveals grave threat to Australia’s World Heritage asset.

OUR FIRST DETECTION OF A NEUTRON STAR COLLISION

Neanderthals got by with a little help from their friends • Not brutes: skeletal analysis indicates our closest extinct relatives had a pronounced caring streak.

A new member of the hominid family • Skeletal and DNA evidence identifies a third species of orangutan.

Why hot water can freeze faster than cold • A puzzling phenomenon first noted by Aristotle has finally been solved.

Why male woolly mammoths dominate the fossil record • Gender bias provides a big clue to the extinct animals’ social behaviour.

When neutrons scatter, the future of energy is revealed • Materials science has a crucial role in the transition to renewable energy sources.

Achievement is limited only by imagination, and beamline numbers

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DEGREE MAKES • As average temperatures creep up, climate scientists spy trouble at the far end of the bell curve. Early results from the nascent science of extreme heatwaves are startling, explains MICHAEL LUCY.

Launch, land, repeat • Reusable rockets can slash the cost of getting into space. CATHAL O’CONNELL explains how the revolutionary technology works.

IT’S WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE • Facial recognition technology is a booming business, driven primarily by government interest in surveillance. Corporations are also investing in it for commercial purposes. Scientists, however, see other potential applications, both good and bad. TIM WALLACE faces four of them.

WHEN SCIENCE MEETS ART • Feast your eyes on these beautiful works of art that happen to have been inspired by science.

SUZANNE ANKER

LIA HALLORAN

MARGARET WERTHEIM

DANIEL ZELLER

XAVIER CORTADA

VIEWPOINT • “AS A GUIDE TO WHAT IS GOOD, EMOTIONS HAVE A VERY CHEQUERED HISTORY”

NO ‘PURE’ REASON TO DIG INTO BUTTER • Findings upending guidelines on fat demand scrutiny.

THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE • How colliding neutron stars proved all are equal before the law of gravity.

GETTING A GRIP ON THE YUCK FACTOR • Personable pigs pose some perplexing problems.

ARCHITECTS FIND THE ARTIST WITHIN • Innovation in materials and design has liberated creativity.

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES • A science writer comes to...


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