Cosmos Magazine

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The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo, whose team published the first Neanderthal genome sequence and has since pioneered genomic analysis into both Neanderthals and the mysterious Denisovans. The researcher

Polyethylene is one of the most common types of plastic in the world. Easy to make, it's devilishly difficult to break down again, making re-use and recycling tricky. In Science, US chemists showed they've figured out a new way to return polyethylene

A digital encyclopedia is capturing animal and plants in 3D. The publicly accessible database, which contains 1,400 detailed 3D models to date, is the creation of Yuichi Kano from Kyushu University, Japan. As detailed in Research Ideas and Outcomes,

When Maxim Adams turned over a rock on Lord Howe Island's northern coastline, he wasn't expecting to find a longmissing animal. “I lifted the first rock under this huge banyan tree, and there it was. For the first 10 seconds or so, I thought ‘No, it

Biologists have made an electrifying discovery: swarming insects can impact the planet's electrical charge. In trying to understand the way electric charge in the atmosphere changes due to many known factors (such as rain, aerosols, radioactivity, po

A primary mission of both of NASA's 1976 Viking landers was to look not just for signs of ancient life on Mars, but signs that the Red Planet might still be inhabited. To do this, they scooped up soil samples and conducted a number of tests, one of w

Before Perseverance set off to collect its precious samples, scientists were honing their techniques on Earth. One place that particularly appealed to them was the driest place on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, where the city of Calama went 401 years

A traditional clinical trial is a very expensive and time-consuming process, taking many years and substantial resources to progress from phase I to IV. Many trials won't go the distance – they'll be terminated at the end of a phase. In each trial ph

“Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.” (10) Answers to each of the clues in columns 1 to 10. Row III reveals the answer. 1 What is the study of the derivation of words? (9) 2 On mainland Australia, what mountain is 2228 metres a