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 Cosmos Online An explosive lunar eclipseMost people will appreciate a lunar eclipse for its silent nocturnal beauty. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke is different: he loves the explosions.  Wildlife tracking turns high-techIncreasingly sophisticated digital and satellite tags are allowing biologists unprecedented opportunities to following the journeys of animals from shearwaters to sharks.  Seeking a quantum computing breakthroughQubits, quantum gates, entangled photons and communication by teleportation. What's new in the curiously confusing world of quantum computing?  Time to end loophole 'scientific' whalingThe International Whaling Commission has become increasingly dysfunctional. Australia and New Zealand should now use international law to prosecute Japan for 'scientific whaling'.  No more climate distractionsIt's time to move beyond squabbles over science as espoused by The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary, and move on to tackling the government policies needed to address climate change.  Realising the promise of stem cellsA spectacular variety of stem cell advances are taking root, from success in primate cloning and stem cells without embryo death to treatments for blindness and diabetes.  Lost in spaceTwo robots hang suspended in space, nose to nose. One reaches out an arm and attends to the other. Fuel is exchanged, a battery replaced; servicing complete, they silently drift apart. This isn't fiction, the robots are orbiting Earth now.  Cicada invasion overwhelms predatorsA remarkable plague of cicadas has been unleashed on Chicago. The insects emerge briefly once every 17 years and can reach densities of 1.5 million an acre.  Going with the flowAlongside desalination and better infrastructure, recycled drinking water could help end Australia's water crisis, but how exactly does the recycling process work?  The 'Indiana Jones' of conservationHe's spent his life battling to save the world's endangered big cats, forming an unlikely alliance with Myanmar's secretive military leaders to establish the world's largest tiger reserve.  Space, the final frontier ... in funeralsPioneering and poetic – or tacky and wasteful, according to your view – burials in space seem set for a rosy future.  What gladiators were really likeWhen you hear 'gladiator', what do you picture? A fat vegetarian with bad teeth, who never fought wearing strappy leather sandals? Well, that's what evidence from an ancient mass grave is telling us.  Primate urgeIn the jungles of Costa Rica, a research team studies the social politics of Capuchin monkeys. They quarrel. They copulate. They stab each other in the back. So do the monkeys.  In Wikipedia we trust?Founded on ideals of free-access and democracy, Wikipedia has flourished. But will the same ideals that led to its success be responsible for its downfall?  Attack of the space microbesOther worlds aren't the only places NASA is searching for microbial life. Bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms from Earth present a potential hazard to all space-bound vessels. 
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