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Issue 20

COSMIC ROULETTE

COSMIC ROULETTE
Physicists around the world are placing bets around the biggest, costliest and most capricious roulette wheel ever conceived. From the Higgs boson to supersymmetry, the chips are piled high, and figuring which will be the winner is occupying everyone's mind. Will the most expensive scientific experiment ever - the Large Hadron Collider - pay off? Peter Calamai reviews the odds of success.

Cosmos Issue 20
FEATURES
TIME WARP

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

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

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

LOOKING TO THE SKIES

Where physics and philosophy (and even theology) intersect is where Paul Davies feels most at home.

STAR DREAMING

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 MAKES US HUMAN?

What is it that sets us apart from other animals? Robin Dunbar thinks it might have something to do with imagination.


REGULAR SECTIONS
PORTRAIT
John Papandriopoulos, communications engineer.
EXPRESS: NEWS
The latest happenings in science.
SNAPSHOT
Lauren Monaghan sniffs out the smell spectrum.
MEDIAROLOGY
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.
UNDER YOUR SKIN
From X-rays to MRIs, medical science has a plethora of tools to give us insight into the inner workings of the human body.
TAILING THE WHALERS
A Greenpeace campaigner traversed half the world's oceans in a bid to halt Japan's annual whale hunt.
PRIMAL TRAILS
Finding inspiration in particle track images, and Iranian-American artist gives us an elegant new perspective on hardcore physics.
WHO ARE YOU?
Genetic ancestry companies claim that an inexpensive test can pinpoint your heritage. Critics say it's not so simple.
NODDING OFF
Narcolepsy.
THE CUTE CONUNDRUM
A furore over bear cubs that became superstars is generating debate about the role of zoos in rearing endangered animals.
MENAGERIE
The naked mole-rat.
OUT OF THE BLUE
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.
SPEED DEMON
With further hypersonic tests planned for the Australian outback this year, the 8,000 km/h scramjet is edging towards reality.
DOUBTS OVER DARK ENERGY
Some scientists are starting to question the very existence of the mysterious and almost undetectable dark energy. So where does this leave modern cosmology?
MIRROR IMAGE
This is no Space Shuttle. This is Buran, product of Soviet suspicion, ingenuity and scant funds; and doomed to failure.
FICTION
"A Place to Call Home" by Amber D. Sistla.
OMNIVORE
A browse through the latest in science books and DVDs.
FOOD MILE FALLACY
Julian Cribb on the challenges of feeding an overpopulated, resource-scarce world.
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