Cosmos - 2019-12-03

• Testing Mars 2020’s 20/20 vision
• WHEN NASA MET PILBARA — MARTIN VAN KRANENDONK & MITCH SCHULTE
• PACKING FOR OUR LONGEST JOURNEY — PAUL DAVIES
• MEET THE FAMILIES — BIANCA NOGRADY
• GREAT AND SMALL — MICROSCOPI­C WONDERS
• GORILLAS IN OUR MIDST — ELIZABETH FINKEL
• A DISCERNING CROWD — MARTIN WHITE
• ORDER IN THE COURT — PAUL CONNOLLY
• REFRACTED GLORY — ROBIN ARIANRHOD
• HOW TO SKI — RANDALL MUNROE
• NOBELS 2019 — Lead scientist Alan Duffy takes in this year’s highs and lows
• SCIENCE OF FIREWORKS — The chemistry and physics of kaboom
• MIDI-CHLORIANS, HERE ON EARTH! — Star Wars symbionts
• PICTURE THIS — 2019’s Kaldor awards for data visualisat­ion
• SUNFLOWER POWER — Yellow’s place in art and science
• WINGS OF DESIRE — Butterflie­s need your help
• NEWS — Dispatches from the world of science
• REVIEWS — Books, podcasts, websites
• PORTRAIT — Kym Abrams
• About The Royal Institutio­n of Australia
• FROM THE EDITORS
• Ape-like face of early human ancestor revealed
• A robot glider that takes off from water
• Want invisible ink? Just put water in your inkjet
• Light-loving polymer acts like a sunflower
• Likely human homeland identified
• Moving home because the fossils say so
• Foot painters’ toes mapped like fingers
• Robot, do what I do
• The science behind Jackson Pollock’s art
• Coming soon: a market garden on Mars
• It was the asteroid, not volcanoes
• Turning sunlight into syngas
• Meet the loudest bird in the world
• Very black is the new black
• Embryonic muscles an ancient echo
• Endangered birds leave genetic clues in their drinking water
• SCINEMA returns
• FROM THE FRONT LINE
• Proof of life?
• MARS 2020 SPECS
• The Rover can choose just 20 Martian samples for analysis back on Earth. Here’s how it will decide:
• FREEMAN DYSON
• NEW BALLS PLEASE
• TENNIS BALLS, TRIANGULAT­ED
• HEALTH ISSUES AS WE AGE
• GORILLAS IN THE CROSSFIRE
• MELBOURNE ZOO
• THE LAW OF REFRACTION
• TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION
• GUIDE & SEEK
• HOW TO TAKE ID PHOTOS
• INVESTING IN SCIENCE
• Cosmic Chronicles: A user’s guide to the Universe
• Bird Bonds: Sex, mate choice and cognition in Australian native birds
• NOW WE’RE TALKING! PODCASTS
• Super science-writing
• WORLD WIDE WANDERING
• Rage Inside the Machine: The prejudice of algorithms and how to stop the internet making bigots of us all
• Botanical Revelation: European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin
• Cosmos Codeword
• It Figures
• COMPETITIO­N WINNERS

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