The Autumn 2023 issue of Cosmos poses (and answers!) one of the biggest questions in science: How do we really know what dinosaurs looked like? A vividly coloured T-rex is just as accurate as a gloomy grey and brown one; their modern, vibrant reimagining is as inspiring as it is instructive. We explore AI that lets us speak with departed loved ones. We don the headsets and enter a VR world that lets us see emotions in real time. We scale the biggest living organisms in the universe. And we track the progress of the largest telescope in the world, currently being built in outback WA with the twin purposes of finding alien life and the birth of, well, everything.
