Cosmos Magazine

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Cosmos Magazine, Issue 16, August-September 2007

Cosmos Magazine
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 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 2005, it has won 22 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 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 same awards ceremony in 2006.

Science 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.

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, a daily Internet news and features service. The Editor-in-Chief is Wilson da Silva.

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.