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Andrew Masterson

Andrew Masterson is former editor of Cosmos.

Cosmos is a quarterly science magazine. We aim to inspire curiosity in ‘The Science of Everything’ and make the world of science accessible to everyone.

At Cosmos, we deliver the latest in science with beautiful pictures, clear explanations of the latest discoveries and breakthroughs and great writing.

Winner of 47 awards for high-quality journalism and design, Cosmos is a print magazine, online digital edition updated daily, a daily and weekly e-Newsletter and educational resource with custom, curriculum-mapped lessons for years 7 to 10.

Science News

"Vaccines" to protect neural networks against hacking

3 minutes

Three-toed skink amazingly produces both eggs and live young

2 minutes

Baby coral on the Great Barrier Reef has reduced by almost 90%

3 minutes

Liking death metal doesn’t make you a violent person

3 minutes

Newly found Aussie dinosaur confirms diversity in ancient rift valley

2 minutes

Rediscovered: the biggest bee in the world

2 minutes

Sea temperature drives fish evolution

3 minutes

Seaweed prospers with a little kelp from its friends

3 minutes

Blood pressure, vampire bats and drug traffickers

2 minutes

Good corporate behaviour boosts sales

2 minutes

This painting of an animal may be the world's oldest

2 minutes

558-million-year-old fossil is oldest animal on Earth

2 minutes

Cane toad genome offers hope for eventual control

4 minutes

Is this the world’s oldest drawing?

1 minute

The mathematics of mass extinction

3 minutes

The mathematics of malaria

4 minutes

Cities drive natural selection

2 minutes

Researchers find the lost harbour of Pisa

2 minutes

The curious case of the buried whetstones

6 minutes

Two-qubit chip draws quantum computing closer

2 minutes

The Spear Project aims to add to our understanding of Bronze Age life

5 minutes

Autonomous vehicle tech will fail without strong regulation, researchers say

3 minutes

Spiders fly using electricity, not wind

2 minutes

Bees prefer inner-city living

3 minutes

The nose knows: kangaroo face shape dictated by diet

2 minutes

Warming climate ups risk of global maize shortage

2 minutes

Zero sums: bees recognise nothing

3 minutes

How did agriculture really get started?

2 minutes

US gives the nod to Golden Rice

1 minute

Evolutionary principles govern city growth

2 minutes

Bumblebees' confusion over iridescence hints at camouflage strategies

4 minutes

Magpies disregard aircraft danger on runways

4 minutes

Rising carbon dioxide will leach nutrients from rice

2 minutes

Hippos leave fish in deep do-do

3 minutes

Sir Mark Oliphant warned the British of US atomic secrecy plans

4 minutes

Baleen whales didn’t always have baleen

2 minutes

It’s official: gamers are truly random

3 minutes

Data gaps mean nano-agriculture benefits remain unclear

4 minutes

Marsupial species eats spiders to stop spiders eating insects

3 minutes

Cereal crops have a secret weapon against drought

2 minutes

Cane toads don’t give a damn about the weather

4 minutes

Fluid dynamics offers clue to cryptocurrencies

4 minutes

Food poisoning protection method doesn’t work, research shows

3 minutes

Australian scientists lead quest for sustainable oil spill tech

2 minutes

Physics explains the mysteries of Guinness

3 minutes

Friendly bacteria help lead ants down the garden path

3 minutes

Happy chickens like one shade of grey

3 minutes

Fishing more environmentally friendly than farming

2 minutes

Generating power from light and shadow

2 minutes

Sunscreen designed to keep Great Barrier Reef cool

2 minutes

The rising problem of doping in eSports

4 minutes

More of the massive Totten Glacier is floating than thought, increasing sea level threat

3 minutes

Whipworms hijack host guts to keep numbers low

4 minutes

Rivers clogged with micro-plastics – until the floods come

2 minutes

Nanotech fertilisers set to shake up farming

2 minutes

Protein cuts water loss in plants

2 minutes

Extremophile survival secret could hold clues for disease treatments

4 minutes

Lack of oxygen brings pore outcome for grapes

2 minutes

Microbes in cows' stomachs may hold keys to biofuel production

2 minutes

Fracking does cause earthquakes – but you can avoid them

4 minutes

The caterpillar that learnt to whistle

3 minutes

Marine ecosystems could counteract some adverse effects of climate change

3 minutes

Bats are host to many deadly viruses – so how come they don't get sick?

5 minutes

When it comes to survival, having the right roots is critical

3 minutes

Jellyfish crisps could revolutionise the food industry

3 minutes

Russian connection sheds light on the mystery of the Ediacaran fossils

4 minutes

Lasers search for cyanide in food plants

3 minutes

Space

Bizarre black hole shoots plasma every which way

3 minutes

Massive meteorite craters found in Western Australia and Central America

3 minutes

Young stars push back to keep the universe ‘vibrant’

2 minutes

Astronomers find massive “ghost galaxy” near the Milky Way

4 minutes

Stand down. Binary star system is not about to explode

3 minutes

Cosmic monster churns out new stars

3 minutes

The Earth’s magnetic field is not about to flip

2 minutes

The Body

The eyes don’t have it

3 minutes

People with a well developed cortex find tonic water less bitter, study finds

2 minutes

Switch to fish and veg to save water, report urges

2 minutes

Alcohol abstainers miss more days at work than moderate drinkers

2 minutes

Agrichemicals and gene mutation make for dangerous Parkinson’s combination

3 minutes

Diet study needs urine donations

3 minutes

Genes tell of our distant insect-eating past

3 minutes

There’s, um, a word for that

2 minutes

Hard yakka doesn’t make men healthy

2 minutes

Organ transplant drug hints at how to stop hair loss

3 minutes

Science says: how not to open a beer bottle

3 minutes

Café dining increases the risks of hormone disruption

3 minutes

Putting the finger on drug users

2 minutes

When cardiologists go away, heart attack victims fare better

3 minutes

New rotavirus vax targets newborns

4 minutes

Red wine is good for your teeth

2 minutes

Parent education, not income, influences obesity in kids

2 minutes

Scientists take a step closer to poo transplant pills

4 minutes

Soil proves rich source of new antibiotics

3 minutes

Unravelling the inflammation mystery

3 minutes

Thought Leaders

Kip Thorne, and why he kept his LIGO scoop under wraps for months

9 minutes

Uncategorized

Seed collection sheds light on earliest African agriculture

2 minutes

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