Cosmos Magazine

Cosmos is a science magazine published every three months, designed to spark curiosity about 'The Science of Everything' and ensure that science is approachable for all. We provide the newest updates in science, featuring stunning visuals, straightforward explanations of recent findings and advancements, along with engaging articles. With a total of 47 accolades for exceptional journalism and design, Cosmos is available in print, as a digital edition that is refreshed daily, and through our daily and weekly e-newsletters. Additionally, we offer educational resources, including tailored lessons that align with the curriculum for students in years 7 to 10.

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ANU keyboard collection unlocks historical sounds

3 days ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Jasmine Fellows

At the end of a dark hallway in the Australian National University’s (ANU’s) School of Music in Canberra, is a room with more than 40 historical keyboards and replicas. These instruments play with unique historical qualities ready for interdisciplinary analysis, including from the sciences. Unlike hands-off museum collections, each of the instruments in the ANU’s Keyboard Institute are there to be played and learned from.
New simulations suggest Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy probably won’t collide after all

5 days ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

The nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, Andromeda, probably won’t collide with our home galaxy as previously predicted. Andromeda is also known as Messier 31, or M31, and about 2.5 million light-years from the Milky Way. Like our own home galaxy, Andromeda is a spiral. It is slightly larger at about twice the diameter of the Milky Way. Astronomers had long suspected that the 2 galaxies were on a collision course.
Nobel Prize winner in Australia: how the expanding universe sparked cutting edge technology

5 days ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

Brian Schmidt was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics along with his colleagues for discovering that the universe’s expansion is picking up speed. Up to that point, cosmologists had assumed that the expansion of the universe would eventually slow down. The work of Schmidt and his collaborators had profound implications. It meant that something – some unknown force – was driving the universe’s expansion. Physicists still don’t know what it is.
Archaeology without digging in the “Cradle of Humankind”

6 days ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

Archaeologists using new methods have unlocked more mysteries of ancient human development hidden under the surface in southern Africa. And it involves no digging. Southern Africa is a treasure trove of ancient human artefacts and fossils. South Africa’s 120,000-acre Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site has the highest concentration of prehistoric human remains in the world. But finds have mostly come from caves and rock shelters where ancient bones and tools are well preserved.
Land-walking ancestor known from a fossil in Scotland is older than previously thought

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

A significant fossil puzzle piece in the evolution of the first vertebrate animals to leave Earth’s ancient seas and walked on land was discovered in Scotland more than 40 years ago. But it has only just been accurately aged – and the results have left palaeontologists stunned. The creature was dubbed Westlothiana lizziae and is one of the oldest examples of a 4-legged animal, also known as a tetrapod, walking on Earth.
Atlantic Ocean current will weaken due to climate change, but not as much as thought according to model

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

The latest modelling has shown that an Atlantic Ocean current critical for regulating Earth’s climate will weaken due to anthropogenic climate change, but perhaps not to the point of collapse as previously suggested. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) transports water and heat from the southern to the northern hemisphere. It also regulates regional weather including the relatively mild summers of Europe and the monsoon seasons in Africa and India.
Ancient East Asian human genomes shed light on origins of shared language groups

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

Genomes from Yunnan in southwestern China, dating from 7,100 to 1,400 years ago, have been sequenced for the first time, revealing new insights about the links between different cultural groups from Tibet to South and Southeast Asia. The findings, published in the journal Science, come from the genomes of 127 ancient humans. Yunnan province today borders Tibet in the northwest, Myanmar in the west, and Laos and Vietnam in the south.
A pathway for livestock farmers to achieve net zero

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Imma Perfetto

As all sectors of society transition to net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, land managers are faced with the additional challenge of balancing farm production and profit with biodiversity, while ensuring continued social licence. Experts believe that “climate mandated disclosures”, such as labels which reveal products’ emissions intensity, will be in place for agriculture, fisheries and forestry within a decade, and therefore climate interventions will be almost compulsory.
Watch a 4-legged robot play badminton better than you

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Imma Perfetto

Yes, you read that correctly… Researchers in Switzerland have designed a robot companion that can play badminton with humans. The robot so adept it can even maintain rallies up to 10 consecutive shots. And an even bigger surprise – the robot learns from its errors. They say their robot demonstrates “the feasibility of using legged mobile manipulators in complex and dynamic sports scenarios.
Bengal delta exposes threat for low-lying coastal areas

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Imma Perfetto

Climate change and human interventions are threatening the water and food security of one of the most densely populated regions in the world – the Bengal delta in Bangladesh – and it’s a threat likely to be experienced around the world. As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, and as humans disrupt freshwater flows through dams and embankments, saltwater is being pushed further into freshwater rivers and underground water sources, according to new research.