*Is dark matter mystery about to be solved?*
About a quarter of the cosmos is thought to be made of dark matter, yet no one has ever found any. In 2008, that could change
*Dark energy may just be a cosmic illusion*
A simple trick of gravity could open the door to a much brighter view of the cosmos
*Did we learn to walk in the trees?*
It has long been assumed bipedalism only evolved after our ancestors came down from the trees, but now this orthodoxy is being challenged
*The cyborg animal spies hatching in the lab*
Scientists are creating a new generation of cyborg insects with implants that control their every move.
Carl Sagan Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.
