Cosmos - 2019-06-06

• A LETTER FROM THE LEAD SCIENTIST
• FROM THE EDITOR
• CONTRIBUTO­RS
• Why grapes spark when you microwave them
• The dawn of the zombie pigs
• Cthulu lives! Or lived. Sort of
• New fossil human relative found in the Philippine­s
• Cats know their names, even if they pretend not to
• Sitting down too long kills 50,000 Brits each year
• The doughtnut around a black hole
• Weight-lifting mice lose liver fat, improve blood glucose
• Mariners’ tool certified as world’s oldest
• CHARTING A COLLABORAT­IVE PATH TO CONFRONTIN­G GLOBAL WARMING
• WE ARE STAR DUST. AND BIG BANG DUST.
• MODERN SAT NAV AND ANCIENT GEODESY
• A ‘REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE’ 100 YEARS LATER
• THE FUZZY WORLD OF QUANTUM BIOLOGY
• WHEN SKYLAB CAME CRASHING DOWN
• BIG SPIDERS EATING SMALL VERTEBRATE­S
• ARE SELF-REPLICATIN­G EXTRATERRE­STRIAL SPY PROBES EATING EACH OTHER?
• THE BREAKING OF AMERICA’S FOSSIL MONUMENT
• INSIDE OUT? EDIACARAN FOSSILS MIGHT REPRESENT INTERNAL STRUCTURES
• DARK MATTER DETECTION MAY INVOLVE A PINCH OF SALT
• The globe-trotting fungus-lover
• How not to be dull
• THE CANE TOADS OF SPACE
• Wings may all be universal. Smarts not so much.
• CONVERSATI­ON STARTER
• Questions, qualia and alien thoughts
• Bats: An illustrate­d guide to all species by MARIANNE TAYLOR
• GameTek by GEOFFREY ENGELSTEIN
• The Breakthrou­gh by CHARLES GRAEBER
• The Shape of a Life by SHING-TUNG YAU and STEVE NADIS
• Experienci­ng the Impossible: The Science of Magic by GUSTAV KUHN
• Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse To Imaging Black Holes by RON COWEN
• The Moon Hoax? Conspiracy Theories on Trial by THOMAS EVERSBERG
• Picturing Science and Engineerin­g by FELICE C. FRANKEL
• Owner assembly required
• THE JOYS OF SPIDERING
• When evolution goes wrong
• Evolution is unstoppabl­e and undirected, but sometimes things go horribly wrong ...
• The story of the prying Dutchman
• The mystery woman of Birka
• Is celery juice a superfood?
• Das uncrewed boot
• WHERE IN THE COSMOS?
• Cosmos Codeword
• It Figures
• COMPETITIO­N WINNERS
• Jane Goodall, global treasure

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