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In this issue of Cosmos Magazine: Imagine using a 3D printer to produce organs from a person’s own cells that can be transplanted without any risk of rejection. Scientists have already started. Fusion energy is clean and virtually limitless but finding a cost-effective way to harness its power has been elusive. That may be about to change. Scientists created the technology that allows governments to listen into to all our conversations. But physics may also have the answer to make our communications secure. We look back at the day the ground shifted under our feet with the bold theory of tectonic plates, which changed the way geologists understand our planet. Plus, our supermassive black hole – we take a journey to see what lives at the centre of the Milky Way.

Articles in this issue available on the web

• Robin Beck, Paleontologist
• Swarm
• Home of the big cats
• Unravelling cell delivery systems
• Spare parts
• Killer T cells may hold key to flu vaccine
• Higgs Boson: A missing link
• Crystallography/tasty low fat foods/green pyrotechnics/comps at light speed
• The scientist’s philosopher
• Chemists who can stop time
• Nightly fix for a dirty mind
• Reviews: Bookshelf: An astronaut’s guide to life on earth
• Reviews: Bookshelf: The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets
• The art of the impossible
• Bionic body parts
• The day the Earth moved
• What makes insects hate DEET?
• A question of personal risk
• Reviews: Bookmark: Infectious diseases
• Up close with the madding crowd: Some current citizen science projects
• Reviews: Bookshelf: A piece of the sun
• Vanishing carbon
• The return of citizen science
• Why aren’t computers creative?
• Time to get to know the ancestors
• Star power
• Malcom McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
• Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year
• Prime Minister’s Prize for Science