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[[Image:Cosmos_Magazine_Cover_Issue_12Cosmos_OctNov2006.jpg|right|thumb|'''Cosmos Magazine''', DecemberOctober/November 2006]]

'''Cosmos Magazine''' is an [[Australia]]n 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 philanthropistentrepreneur 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 has 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, Great Britain, the United StatesKingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong. In June 2006, the magazine launched [http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/ Cosmos Online], a dailyan Internet news and features service withthat originalis contentupdated daily.

The name has also been used for other magazines, including two different U.S. science fiction magazines in 1953-1954 (4 issues) [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0165.htm] and 1977 (4 issues) [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0166.htm] and a British astronomy education journal which was launched in April 2005 which is produced in association with the European Space Agency.

==External links==

*[http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/ ''Cosmos''], the Australian print magazine and online news service.

[[Category:Australian magazines]]