To celebrate the 100th issue of Cosmos magazine, we’re exploring reasons to hope

Does thinking about the future inspire fear, or excitement?

This issue, we report on the amazing science helping to cure, conserve, and create solutions for the years and decades to come. We revisit Cosmos’ own fearless science predictions from almost 20 years ago, as well as delivering bold forecasts on what we should be expecting next.

Meet the chemists transforming their field into something clean, green and planet-saving
Learn about the cutting-edge researchers fighting back against antibiotic resistance
Cosmos future predictions: what did we get right? What was wrong? And what comes next?
Discover how the syntheverse will harness AI’s potential to improve our lives
Visit the charismatic mountain pygmy possum and read about its surprising relationships and possible path to resilience.

All this plus pictures, puzzles, poison potential and more.

Cosmos: explore your universe with us.

Daniel Lizotte