Cosmos - 2022-03-14

• From the Executive Director
• Science in the wild
• ABOUT THE ROYAL INSTITUTIO­N OF AUSTRALIA
• From the Editors
• Fossilised dinosaur egg shows embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
• The science of wicket soil
• 60 MILLION ICEFISH NESTS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA
• THE LONGEST EVER LIGHTNING STRIKE
• Toxic showdown: ancient primates vs venomous snakes
• Why would you drop 27 seismomete­rs on the ocean floor?
• GOOD BOY! DOG BRAINS UNDERSTAND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPANISH AND HUNGARIAN
• Quantum batteries a step closer with superabsor­ption breakthrou­gh
• TASMANIAN DEVILS PUZZLE SCIENCE WITH PICKY EATING HABITS
• Early footprints re-analysed as bipedal hominin’s
• ALL POINTS QUESTION
• BISON SCIENTISTS UNCOVER 1,000-YEAR-OLD ROCK CARVINGS
• More megafires loom in Australia’s future
• Three separate attacks are the first confirmed blue whale deaths by killer whales
• Risks and rewards of aluminium in solar panels
• THE DOUBLETHRE­AT COPPER SURFACE THAT KILLS BACTERIA IN MINUTES
• Quantum spin liquid observed in physics first
• INCREDIBLY RARE BOTANICAL EVENT CAPTURED IN AMBER
• *Record scratch*: maybe there actually IS liquid water on Mars?
• Empowering our energy future
• THROWING LIGHT ON DARK MATTER
• ATOMS TOUCHING
• WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
• THE GRAVITY TRACTOR
• NUCLEAR OPTION
• SOME LIKE IT HOT
• HOW SOUND AFFECTS DEVELOPMEN­T IN HUMANS
• GOOD VIBRATIONS
• LET IT SLIDE
• PEPPER’S GHOST
• My 6-year-old son randomly asked me: How many people can fit into Australia? – Hannah
• Why do we only snore when we’re asleep? Why don’t people who snore wake themselves up with their snoring? – Sue
• It Figures

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