Editors | Gail MacCallum (Cosmos) and Ian Connellan ( RiAus) |
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Categories | Popular science |
Frequency | Quarterly in print; online |
Total circulation (2022) | 114,000 |
Founded | 2004 |
First issue | 21 June 2005 |
Company | Royal Institution of Australia |
Country | Australia |
Based in | Adelaide |
Language | English |
Website | CosmosMagazine.com |
ISSN | 1832-522X |
Cosmos (subtitled The Science of Everything) is a science magazine published in Adelaide, South Australia, by the Royal Institution of Australia that covers science globally. It appears four times a year in print as Cosmos Magazine, and the online edition is updated daily with news as well as long features and multi-media content, and includes the print magazine content. Cosmos Weekly is a subscription-based weekly online edition published on Fridays, and a podcast was launched in April 2022.
The magazine was established in Sydney in November 2004[ citation needed] by the Sydney magazine publishing executive Kylie Ahern and science journalist Wilson da Silva. [1] with the first issue published in July 2005. [2]
In June 2006, the magazine launched a daily Internet news and features service. [3]
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.[ citation needed]
In June 2013 the company, then owned by Luna Media, moved to Melbourne following its acquisition in February 2013 by Australia's Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, and his wife Elizabeth Finkel, a science journalist, who became editor-in-chief. The Finkels were already part-owners, and acquired the remainder from Ahern and Da Silva, who remained on the editorial staff. [4]
On 1 September 2018, custodianship of the magazine was transferred to Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), a not-for-profit science media organisation based in Adelaide. [5] [1] In April 2021 Cosmos Weekly was launched, and exactly a year later, a podcast on the LiSTNR app, featuring science explainers, was launched. [6]
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. [7]
Cosmos' subtitle [7] and byline is "The Science of Everything". The quarterly print magazine, Cosmos Magazine, is a science magazine published in Adelaide by RiAus, covering international developments in science. The online edition is updated daily with news as well as long features and multi-media content. Cosmos Weekly is a subscription-based weekly online edition published on Fridays. [8]
In the 12 months to March 2022, the print readership of Cosmos had increased 115.1% on the previous year, lifting it to 114,000. [9]
Ian Connellan is editor-in-chief of RiAus, while Gail MacCallum is managing editor of Cosmos Magazine. [6] [10]
Cosmos Magazine won 48 journalism and industry awards under Da Silva's editorship, [7] including Magazine of the Year at the Bell Awards for Publishing Excellence in 2009 [11] [12] and 2006, and Editor of the Year in 2006 and 2005. [7]
It won a Reuters/World Conservation Union Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting, an Earth Journalism Award and the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award.[ citation needed]
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