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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Watch origami ‘metabot’ twist and expand without power

1 day ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Imma Perfetto

The fascinating behaviour of origami has inspired engineers to design a structure that twists when compressed and shrinks when twisted. The structure is a “metamaterial”; a class of engineered materials that exhibit behaviour not seen in nature and whose properties depend on their structure rather than chemical composition. These materials can have applications ranging from heat regulation to robotics and packaging.
Researchers find way to separately measure methane emissions

4 days ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Coco Veldkamp

An international study has revealed fresh insights into global methane emissions using innovative multi-isotopic atmospheric measurements. Researchers using advanced isotopic analysis, including radiocarbon and stable isotopes of carbon and hydrogen, were able to accurately distinguish between the different sources of methane (CH4) emissions.
Blood supply will be another victim of the climate crisis

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Imma Perfetto

Climate change will impact all aspects of life as we know it, including blood donation with a new review in The Lancet Planetary Health now suggesting that climate change poses serious risks to the safety, stability, and availability of the global blood supply.
How crocodile ancestors survived the dinosaur extinction

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

Crocodiles are often thought of as living fossils – unchanged over millions of years. New research has shown that their evolutionary history is a lot more complicated than that. Crocodilia is the surviving family of a lineage which emerged about 230 million years ago (mya) called crocodylomorphs. This group split from other reptilian species including those that eventually became dinosaurs. Today, the crocodilia include crocodiles, alligators, caiman and gharials.
NASA prepares for Lucy spacecraft's second close encounter with an asteroid

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

NASA spacecraft Lucy is just days away from its second close encounter with an asteroid. Lucy was launched in 2021 and is on its way to Jupiter’s orbit to explore a group of asteroids known as the 10 Trojans. The spacecraft has to pass through the solar system’s main asteroid belt to get to Jupiter’s orbit, which is more than 5 times further from the Sun than Earth’s orbit. The asteroid belt is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, on average about 2.8 times further from the Sun than Earth.
sophisticated fire technology used by ancient humans in the Ice Age

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

Ice Age hearths in Ukraine have been studied using innovative archaeological techniques to better understand how ancient humans used fire. Human ancestors have been using fire for a long time. Homo erectus may have been the first human to control fire up to 2 million years ago. There is evidence from nearly 800,000 years ago of humans using fire to cook food. Controlling fire is considered one of the cornerstones of human evolutionary and social development.
New quantum entanglement type found in nanoscale structures

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

The year of quantum is playing host to a vast number of new quantum research papers and slowly they are filling the void of what is known, and what might prove useful to our future. Physicists have for the first time seen entanglement of the “total angular momentum” of light particles in nanoscale structures. The discovery may have implications for next-generation quantum communication and computing components.
Teen sprinter Gout Gout’s step length rivalled Usain Bolt’s

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Imma Perfetto

Gout Gout, the seventeen-year-old sprinting prodigy from Australia, has blitzed yet another milestone on his way to global domination. Gout clocked in at 19.84 seconds to win the men’s 200m final at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth this past weekend. The effort would have secured him a new record, but for an illegal wind speed of 2.2m per second.
the next step in medical diagnostics

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Imma Perfetto

Imagine standing in your kitchen at home, feeling a little off colour. You grab a handheld device from the medicine cabinet and breathe into it, looking for an instant diagnosis of whatever you’re coming down with. Such a machine is being developed right now, using technology called optical frequency combs. Or just combs.
most precise measurement shows they are a million times smaller than electrons

1 week ago | cosmosmagazine.com | Evrim Yazgin

Physicists in Germany have performed the most accurate measurement of the mass of the fundamental particle neutrinos. The finding deepens physicists’ attempts to uncover laws of nature beyond even the best current theories. The standard model of particle physics – the best theory which explains the fundamental forces and particles of nature – posits that neutrinos are massless. Experiments, however, suggest that they do have mass.