This article on South East Asian carbon policy first appeared in Cosmos Weekly on 15 October 2021. For more stories l...

Fibres from tree wood could advance lithium-ion power another step.

Solid-state lithium-ion batteries are a hallowed goal in energy: they’d be more powerful – and safer – than current c...

Flickering stars, snake-like skinks and night-owl krill – here’s what you missed in science this ...

Pulsating white dwarf spotted From up in orbit, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recorded a...

Even as the COP26 climate change conference rapidly approaches, it is international pressure and ...

While the Nationals drag their heels over whether they will commit to Scott Morrison’s net zero by 2050 policy, Austr...

An update on Chuck Smeeton’s breakthrough COVID infection.

As detailed in the previous instalment, after a couple of days I considered myself the textbook case of a fully vacci...

Meet the man who predicted the threat of space junk.

In Neal Stephenson’s 2015 novel Seveneves, he imagines that the Earth’s moon breaking into seven pieces. This being a...

Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.

Vaccines are highly effective at preventing death from Delta A Scottish study of 100,000 Delta-positive people has...

Does this new study mean we can all stop worrying?

By Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University A newly published study in the journal PLoS ONE suggests spending tim...

This article on the future of physics first appeared in Cosmos Weekly on 15 October 2021. For more stories like this,...

The puzzling Mpemba effect has been successfully modelled, explaining a paradox that baffled Aris...

The Mpemba effect:  under the right circumstances, hot water can freeze more quickly than cold. This mystery has puzz...