COSMIC ROULETTE
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TIME WARP
It can fly or it can crawl. It waits for no man. Erica Harrison looks at what makes our sense of time tick.
MIND MAPS
Advances in brain scanning are allowing psychiatrists to move from cautiously diagnosing symptoms to actually seeing the underlying malfunctions of the mind, as Carolyn Barry discovers.
ELEMENTAL VISION
The periodic table we grew up with might one day become obsolete. Eric R. Scerri introduces some chic young challengers.
LOOKING TO THE SKIES
Where physics and philosophy (and even theology) intersect is where Paul Davies feels most at home.
STAR DREAMING
In the stark beauty of Australia's Northern Territory, Ray Norris stumbles across a fellow astronomer of a very different tradition.
WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?
What is it that sets us apart from other animals? Robin Dunbar thinks it might have something to do with imagination.
John Papandriopoulos, communications engineer.
The latest happenings in science.
Lauren Monaghan sniffs out the smell spectrum.
Climate scientist Stephen H. Schneider looks at how the black and white world of the popular media might be reconciled with the grey shades of science.
From X-rays to MRIs, medical science has a plethora of tools to give us insight into the inner workings of the human body.
A Greenpeace campaigner traversed half the world's oceans in a bid to halt Japan's annual whale hunt.
Finding inspiration in particle track images, and Iranian-American artist gives us an elegant new perspective on hardcore physics.
Genetic ancestry companies claim that an inexpensive test can pinpoint your heritage. Critics say it's not so simple.
Narcolepsy.
A furore over bear cubs that became superstars is generating debate about the role of zoos in rearing endangered animals.
The naked mole-rat.
It sounds more like fiction than fact, but buried in the depths of the Australian outback are the fossils of prehistoric creatures in precious gems.
With further hypersonic tests planned for the Australian outback this year, the 8,000 km/h scramjet is edging towards reality.
Some scientists are starting to question the very existence of the mysterious and almost undetectable dark energy. So where does this leave modern cosmology?
This is no Space Shuttle. This is Buran, product of Soviet suspicion, ingenuity and scant funds; and doomed to failure.
"A Place to Call Home" by Amber D. Sistla.
A browse through the latest in science books and DVDs.
Julian Cribb on the challenges of feeding an overpopulated, resource-scarce world.
