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| DINOSAUR SPECIAL Velociraptor and T. rex never really died out, a little part of them is in every chicken drumstick today. In our 28-page Dinosaur Special, discover how they were were more bird-like than ever imagined, meet beasts that roamed a polar Australia, hunt dinos with Jack Horner and find out why cloning would be the easy part of creating Jurassic Park. Also: how the LHC might help make black-hole-powered starships; the reason junk DNA is extremely valuable; and why we could be surrounded by invisible dimensions. |  |
JURASSIC DREAMS
The barrier to creating a dinosaur safari park may not be cloning the animals, says palaeontologist Scott Sampson, but a host of other obstacles.
ONCE WERE DINOSAURS
It seems the dinosaurs didn’t die out after all: a slew of discoveries is showing that many dinosaurs were feathered and, as John Pickrell reveals, much more bird-like than ever imagined.
BEASTS OF THE ICE
How did dinosaurs endure up to six-months of cold and total darkness? Fossils from Australia are telling the strange story of polar dinosaurs - Mitch Leslie hits the beaches in Victoria to learn more.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF EXTINCTION
Are a third of dinosaurs ‘species’ actually just the juveniles of other species? Boonsri Dickinson joined veteran dinosaur hunter Jack Horner in the Badlands of Montana as he tried to find out.
THE TROUBLE WITH GENES
Junk DNA was once thought to be little more than gibberish. But, as Elizabeth Finkel reports, junk DNA may actually be the software that controls a complex organism.
SHADOW WORLDS
Are we are all enveloped in an invisible cloud of tiny, curled up dimensions? Some physicists think so, and plan to use black holes created in the lab to unmask them, as Diana Steelereports.
STARSHIPS AHOY!
Without destroying Earth, the Large Hadron Collider might help humans expand across the cosmos, Tom Siegfried reports.
PORTRAIT:
Kathleen Harvey, geologist.
NEWS:
Stuff in science you need to know.
MENAGERIE:
The green spoonworm.
WEIRD SCIENCE AND BITES:
Wacky and wonderful science.
TRIVIA:
Exercise your neurons.
DIAGNOSIS:
Persistent genital arousal disorder; yep, it really exists.
NERD WORDS:
Kula Ring
RUNDOWN:
The latest in science, by the numbers.
HIT LIST:
There’s no “I” in “Team”, but there’re two in “Symbiosis”.
COMPETITION:
Win one of five sets of two dinosaur books.
FOREWORD:
Make science, not war – a word from the editor Wilson da Silva.
FEEDBACK:
Letters – and photos – from our readers, who have opinions and like to travel.
GALLERY: THE STORM CHASERS
Up-close and personal with extreme weather.
TRAVELOGUE: COSMIC CLOUDS
CERN may be famous for housing the Large Hadron Collider but, as Andrew Wight learned, it also hosts an experiment that will offer the first real data on how cosmic rays affect Earth’s climate.
FICTION: ALL THE WRONG PLACES
“I saw it,” he said. “The Higgs Boson. It was here in the bar.” Original new science fiction by Val Nolan
REVIEWS:
Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics by Fulvio Melia; Suzuki’s Green Guide by David Suzuki and David R. Boyd; The Science of the Oven by Hervé This; We need to talk about Kelvin: what everyday things tell us about the universe by Marcus Chown and more.
Plus the top five science and science fiction books in Australia.
And we find out what Australian physicist Bryan Gaensler is reading.
OPINION: ONE-WAY TICKET
There’s no shortage of people eager to take the next giant leap and make the long and hazardous journey to Mars, says Paul Davies. Even if it’s a one-way mission.