2020-03-01_Cosmos_Magazine
NASA/JOHN HOPKINS APL; UNIVERSITY OF BATH. OPP: GETTY IMAGES DIGEST 20 – COSMOS Issue 86 Researchers successfully create them on ...
One can imagine an old wizard, Albus Dumbledore perhaps, peering into the clear globe of this mystery object. Invented in 1853 b ...
“dinosaurs were remarkably climate- tolerant, thriving from equatorial to polar latitudes”, write the authors of a paper in the ...
INSPIRE YOUR STUDENTS WITH COSMOS MAGAZINE FOR SCHOOLS Cosmos is a trusted and unbiased source for the important stories that de ...
V W PICS / UNIVERSAL IMAGES It’s often said that science is self- correcting. First, a scientist presents a result, openly admit ...
number called the Hubble Constant, named after the first astronomer to measure it. But as both sides get more precise data, it’s ...
GETTY; IMAGES Humans see the world three kinds of cone cells (receptors used for colour vision) that give us the world, usually ...
PICTURE THIS Issue 86 COSMOS – 27 FLY VISION SNAKE VISION COMPUTER VISION ...
Future flock Some free-range chooks lay substantially more eggs than others, and Manisha Kolakshyapati, from The University of N ...
Issue 86 COSMOS – 29 energy towards a physiological stress response and, if this is a chronic state of stress, it will have long ...
Updrafted into service in the fight against illegal fishing, these graceful airborne giants could be the key to defending devast ...
WITH WINGSPANS ALMOSTthe length of a car – the largest of any bird – small and inconspicuous they are not. But albatrosses have ...
TAAF LUC FARGIER; WEIMERSKIRCH ET AL, PNAS 2000 LIGHTING UP THE DARK Oceans cover more than 360 million square kilometres of the ...
WEIMERSKIRCH ET AL, PNAS 2000; OCEAN SENTINEL ecosystems, from even less food for birds already struggling to maintain numbers t ...
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COLLECTION MUSEUM VICTORIA T O AN UNTRAINED EYE, the glass plate resembles a dirty tile covered with tiny black spots – as if an ...
1887 Director of Sydney Observatory Henry C. Russell attends the first International Astrophotographic Congress in Paris on the ...
1896 FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS 1899 SECOND BOER WAR STARTS 1890 Construction of the “star camera” at Sydney Observatory is completed ...
evolving,” says Moore, who is now web editor at the Astronomical Society of New South Wales. Keen to see the potential data lock ...
Mary Allen and Ethel Wilcocks measuring astrographic plates at Sydney Observatory in 1941. The “computers” worked in pairs, one ...
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