Cosmos (magazine)

COSMOS

Editor-in-Chief	Wilson da Silva
Categories	Science Magazine
Frequency	Bi-Monthly
Paid circulation	28,800
First issue	2005
Company	Luna Media Pty Ltd
Country	Australia
Language	English
Website	www.cosmosmagazine.com
ISSN	1832-522X

For other uses, see Cosmos (disambiguation).

Cosmos is an Australian popular science magazine that is published six times a year. It is subtitled "the science of everything" and is described as "a magazine of ideas, science, society and the future".

The magazine was established in November 2004 by the Australian neuroscientist and entrepreneur Dr Alan Finkel, magazine publishing executive Kylie Ahern and science journalists Wilson da Silva and Elizabeth Finkel. Launched in 2005, it has won 44 journalism and industry awards, including Magazine of the Year in both 2009 and 2006 , Editor of the Year in 2006 and 2005, and Best Internet Site at Australia's Bell Awards for Publishing Excellence, as well as a Reuters/World Conservation Union Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting, an Earth Journalism Award and the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award.

The magazine is published by Luna Media, a boutique publishing house in Sydney which was named Best Small Publisher at the same awards ceremony in 2009 and 2006.

Writers whose work have featured include Margaret Wertheim, Jared Diamond, Tim Flannery, Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Michio Kaku, Susan Greenfield, Steven Pinker, Paul Davies, Simon Singh and Oliver Sacks.

Cosmos is produced in Australia and sold internationally, with a news-stand presence in New Zealand, the USA, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong. In June 2006, the magazine launched Cosmos Online,^[1] a daily Internet news and features service. It also produces a weekly email newsletter, Cosmos Update, and the educational supplement Cosmos Teacher's Notes, which reach 65% of Australian high schools.

The magazine was the originator of HELLO FROM EARTH, a web-based initiative to send messages from the public, each just 160 characters in length, to Gliese 581d, the (then) nearest Earth-like planet outside the Solar System. Created as a science communication exercise for 2009 National Science Week in Australia, it collected nearly 26,000 messages that were beamed by NASA's Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex on 28 August 2009.

Similar titles

The name Cosmos has also been used for other magazines, including two different U.S. science fiction magazines between 1953 and 1954 (4 issues)^[2] and 1977 (4 issues),^[3] and a British astronomy journal launched in April 2005 and produced in association with the European Space Agency.

References

1. ^ Cosmosmagazine.com
2. ^ Locusmag.com
3. ^ Locusmag.com

External links

• Cosmos, official website