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FEATURE | Power Shift

Our energy system is woefully antiquated and based on a preposterously rickety 19th century...

Mar 1, 2019
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | The Quest for a Silicon Quantum Computer

Silicon may hold the key to quantum computing, as Wilson da Silva discovers.ANDREA MORELLO is not...

Sep 13, 2017
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | Her Brilliant Career

The secret of 42-year-old Tanya Monro’s meteoric rise is a high octane mix of intellectual fire...

Apr 1, 2015
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | The Physicist Who Inflated the Universe

WILSON da SILVA speaks to the winner of the Kavli Prize for Astrophysics – a man who once had...

Mar 1, 2015
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | Social Robots Are Coming

A new breed of automatons – friendly, engaging and even soft to touch – will soon be among us. And...

Oct 1, 2014
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | Man on a Mission

Australia's Chief Scientist is fighting the good fight, spearheading the effort to have science...

Oct 1, 2014
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | The Particle and the Prize

For more than a century, the Nobel Prizes have represented the zenith of scientific achievement....

Jun 1, 2014
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | Mother of All Challenges

Here’s what I think is going to happen over the next 50 years.By Wilson da SilvaANY DAY NOW, I will...

Apr 1, 2013
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | Computer, Heal Thyself

Medical researchers overwhelmed by the profusion of diagnostic and scientific data may find that...

Feb 1, 2013
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | You Have Been Warned

Hurricane Sandy did more than cripple New York and kill hundreds – it brought climate change out of...

Dec 1, 2012
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | Common Ground

 When science meets parliament, you’d expect clashes in areas where political stances and...

Oct 1, 2012
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | ‘Just the Facts’ Ain’t Enough

Simply presenting people with evidence does not alter beliefs, especially those that are deeply...

Jun 1, 2012
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | The Long Decline

Are we approaching a tipping point in world history, when the power and pre-eminence of the West,...

Apr 1, 2012
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | Rethinking the World’s Energy

Can we really shift the world completely away from fossil fuels in the next 20 years? A brave band...

Apr 1, 2012
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | The Coming Storm

A solar superflare may come any day, bringing our modern, hyper-wired world to a standstill. We...

Feb 1, 2012
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | Engines of Ingenuity

Australia has unparalleled opportunity to leapfrog the painful boom-bust cycles by investing in our...

Dec 1, 2011
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | Lost Horizons

There’s so much we can achieve, if we just put our minds to it.By Wilson da SilvaWHAT DO YOU ask a...

Oct 1, 2011
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | The Sad, Sad Demise of Greenpeace

Science is not a belief system we can opt in and out of depending on our ideological or political...

Aug 1, 2011
Cosmos Magazine
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FEATURE | Gateway to Heaven

From the lowlands of Cape Canaveral in Florida, Wilson da Silva watches the final flight of a space...

Jun 1, 2011
Cosmos Magazine
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OPINION | Getting Serious

Governments have tried to deal with climate change and failed. The world has tried diplomacy, but...

Jun 1, 2011
Cosmos Magazine
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