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Earth sends messages into outer space

12 August 2009

Messages from Earth will be sent into space as part of National Science Week.


ET text home? Send SMSes to outer space

12 August 2009

An Australian website is giving texting an intergalactic touch and allowing users to send short mobile phone-type messages into space.


Chiropractic sceptic sued for libel finds local backing from science magazine

4 August 2009

AN AUSTRALIAN science magazine has taken a leading role in an international campaign to keep libel laws out of science by republishing an article by a journalist being sued by the British Chiropractic Association.


Robert Gottliebsen

Our carbon bubble danger

4 August 2009

A decade ago, when the accountants were debating a new set of accounting rules, business was too busy to be active in the discussions. The result is an international mess. We could never have imagined our accountants would get it so wrong. Similarly with sub-prime, who could have imagined American bankers being so stupid?


Wilson da Silva

Writer speaks to industry’s decline

19 February 2009

An Australian science journalist told a crowd at the University of Wisconsin on Tuesday the Internet news revolution is having a negative effect on science journalism and newspapers internationally.


Wilson da Silva

Noted Australian science writer to visit

15 February 2009

Wilson da Silva, editor in chief of the award-winning Australian science magazine COSMOS, has been named a University of Wisconsin Madison science writer in residence for this spring.


Wilson da Silva

Profile of a Science Journalist: Wilson da Silva, Editor of COSMOS

7 February 2009

A career profile of the Editor-in-Chief of COSMOS magazine, focusing on how he became a science journalist. Produced and published by the Australian Science Media Centre in Adelaide.


G Magazine July 2008 cover

Too keen to go green without recycling

2 February 2009

Magazines producing 'green issues' should use recycled paper or offset their carbon emissions for that issue, and not bask in a green aura without earning it, says COSMOS editor.


Virgin Galactic spaceplane

Tourism's final frontier

13 November 2008

Notch up your frequent flyer points, Terry Smyth of The Sun-Herald writes, because suborbital tourism is the next chapter of the space age.


Wilson da Silva experiences 6Gs

A Look Inside Virgin Galactic's Flight Training

11 November 2008

Would-be astronauts train for the world’s first suborbital space tourism flight. Among them is Wilson da Silva, editor-in-chief of COSMOS magazine.


G Magazine, October 2008 issue

Steps on the green scale

18 September 2008

Attacks on the environmental credentials of corporations may be hindering rather than fostering change, writes Paul McIntyre.


 Kylie Ahern, Luna Media CEO and Publisher of COSMOS

City’s best businesses recognised

29 August 2008

PYRMONT’S Doltone House was a buzz with excited winners of the City of Sydney’s Business Awards last night, with IT company Atlassian taking out the top gong.


Atlassian, 2008 Business of the Year

Best in the business rewarded

28 August 2008

Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP last night announced Atlassian is the winner of the Business of the Year in this year's City of Sydney Business Awards.


Wilson da Silva in The Canberra Times

Final frontier ... future boom

20 August 2008

IN THE not-too-distant future you could fly from Sydney to London and the trip would take three hours about the length of a decent in-flight movie or the time taken to check-in. Add a few more years and you could honeymoon in hotels in zero-gravity or take a holiday to the moon


Space tourism to pay technology dividends

16 August 2008

One of the first Australian space tourists in waiting says humanity is about to enter a “golden age” of sub-orbital travel, which could lead to innovations for space-based habitats and power stations.