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Cosmos

Editor-in-Chief	Wilson da Silva
Categories	Science Magazine
Frequency	Bi-Monthly
Paid circulation	25,000
First issue	2005
Company	Luna Media, Pty Ltd
Country	Australia
Language	English
Website	www.cosmosmagazine.com
ISSN	1832-522X

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 27 journalism and industry awards, including 2006 Magazine of the Year, 2006 and 2005 Editor of the Year 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.

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 2006 and is Australia's only 100% carbon neutral media company.

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, a daily Internet news and features service.

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) [1] and 1977 (4 issues) [2], and a British astronomy journal launched in April 2005 and produced in association with the European Space Agency.

External links

• Cosmos, official website