Issue 6: Elemental

A word from our Editors-in-Chief.

The world has long been subject to the fury of fire and volcanic eruptions. Technology to predict seismic activity may allow us to tame this elemental force.

Drink bottles, tinned food, receipts: a recipe for disaster? Interviewing A/Prof Mark Green, Kara exposes the hidden dangers of endocrine disrupting chemicals.

A pursuit of knowledge and a testament to survival, Ethan navigates the enthralling legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Arwen breaks down the intricacies of decomposition, leading us to consider the fundamental power not only in creation, but destruction.

Following the industrial revolution, humankind has exploited and degraded the Earth's natural resources. Serenie shows how nature resists, maintaining the capacity to restore what humans have destroyed.

Carbon constitutes life and death, shaping conscious human existence. What threat could AI hold to the power of this element?

Our mysterious, yet omnipresent sixth sense - proprioception is the reason we know where our body and limbs are, even in the dark.

There's hydrogen and helium, then lithium, beryllium - or is there? The periodic table we know today was not always so, as Xen recounts.