Cosmox Blogs

A coral reef is like a skyscraper built on fragile bricks. But today, those bricks are dissolving. Scientists found that coral shells are now up to 76% thinner than they were just 150 years ago (BBC, Ocean Acidification: The Climate Crisis’s “Evil Twin”). Watching this unfold, I realized that

What if I told you that humankind has made a plethora of discoveries in the quantum world because some guy thought about killing a cat? Seems bizarre, doesn't it? The Schrodinger cat experiment is a famous thought experiment that was formulated in 1935 by Erwin Schrodinger who was

Have you ever wondered how many people are on the organ waiting list, just waiting for someone to donate an organ to them so they can have another chance at life? Nearly 107,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for an organ donation, and 3,467 of

In today's science mass is a quantity that is defined as the amount of matter in an object. In classical physics, mass is defined by comparing it to a known standard, comparing a tangible way of understanding the concept of mass through real-world observation. In the past, scientists

“The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.” ~ Stephen Hawking Introduction From quantum mechanics to general relativity, physics and its theories are diverse and scattered but imagine a theory that binds all of it together, that can explain all aspects of

Recent scientific discussions have introduced the concept of "dark oxygen"—a mysterious form of oxygen that is believed to exist in deep-sea environments or extraterrestrial atmospheres, potentially sustaining unknown forms of life. Unlike the O₂ we breathe, dark oxygen is not directly produced by photosynthesis and may play