A home for discovery, scientific ideas, the natural world and thoughtful exploration of how we understand our universe.
From an extraordinarily hot and dense early universe to billions of galaxies, distant stars and mysterious cosmic forces, the story of the universe is one of the greatest scientific discoveries of humanity.
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NASA's Voyager 1 is approaching a historic milestone: one light-day from Earth, approximately 16.1 billion miles away.
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Imagine a code so small that you cannot see it with your naked eyes, yet it contains instructions essential to building and maintaining your body. A code that connects you to your parents, carries traces of your ancestry, and helps explain why every individual is biologically unique.
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Imagine a star so massive that, after its death, its gravity becomes so powerful that even light cannot escape it. Imagine a place where the familiar rules of the universe lead us toward a boundary beyond which our present understanding of physics begins to fail. Imagine falling toward an invisible darkness while the distant universe appears to unfold at a different pace.
Read story →Published in 1895, The Time Machine helped popularize the idea of time travel as a literary device. Wells uses the journey into the far future to explore social division, technological change and the direction of civilization.,The novel remains an important bridge between Victorian literature and modern science fiction. n
Read story →Science advances through questions, evidence and the patient work of discovery.,This sample feature shows how a real Cosmo science article will appear once published. n
Read story →The Science Desk brings together astronomy, Earth science, life sciences, physics and technology in an accessible magazine format. New features can be added through the Cosmo publishing system.
Explorations of landscapes, oceans, climate, ecosystems and the changing relationship between people and the natural world.
Stories about biology, evolution, ecosystems and the remarkable variety of life on Earth.
Ideas and discoveries that invite us to think about matter, energy, space, time and the structure of reality.
Thoughtful coverage of invention, engineering, computing and technologies shaping modern life.
From careful observation to scientific evidence, this space follows the ways knowledge is built and tested.
Essays and features about the role of scientific knowledge in culture, education and everyday life.
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