Cosmos (magazine)

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Cosmos Magazine, October/November 2006

Cosmos Magazine is an Australian popular 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 June 2005, it has received 14 journalism and industry awards, including Magazine of the Year, Editor of the Year (twice) and Best Internet Site at Australia's Bell Magazine Awards, as well as a Reuters/World Conservation Union Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting. The magazine is published by Luna Media, which was named Best Small Publisher at the 2006 Bell Magazine Awards.

Science writers whose work have featured include Margaret Wertheim, Jared Diamond, Edward O. Wilson, Michio Kaku, Tim Flannery and Simon Singh.

The magazine is produced in Australia and sold internationally, with a newsstand presence in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong. In June 2006, the magazine launched Cosmos Online, an Internet news and features service that is updated daily.

The name has also been used for other magazines, including two different U.S. science fiction magazines in 1953-1954 (4 issues) [1] and 1977 (4 issues) [2] and a British astronomy education journal which was launched in April 2005 which is produced in association with the European Space Agency.