Cosmos issue 83 – the birth of extreme cool: human hibernation on trialala

Cosmos is an award-winning quarterly magazine available in print and online. It’s the forerunner to the online news site you are now enjoying, and offers the same high-quality, independent science journalism. In the magazine, you’ll find a round-up of science news, longer feature articles, thought-provoking commentary, picture galleries, book reviews, as well as regular sections such as Technophile and Mind Games. In this issue: • The Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project explained • Columns by Alan Finkel, Paul Davies and Katie Mack • Einstein, Eddington, and a solar eclipse • When NASA lost control of its spacecraft • A US fossil wonderland under threat • Rocks and cosmology’s greatest mystery • Alison Pouliot makes mushrooms marvellous • Day trips in Chernobyl • The joys of cardboard • Citizen science and arachnids . Orca will change US undersea battle-readiness . We are stardust. And Big Bang dust. . The globe-trotting fungus-lover . Is celery a super food? . Wings may all be universal. Smarts, not so much. . The breaking of America’s fossil monument . Sleepyheads: the surprising promise of inducing torpor . Inside out? Ediacaran fossils might represent internal structures, researchers say . The surprisingly contentious Viking warrior woman of Birko . Dark matter detection may involve a pinch of salt • Book reviews, puzzles and much, much more