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Dear alien, can I add you to Facebook?

13 August 2009

THE Federal Government will offer Australians the chance to send messages to distant intelligent beings from today.


Is there anybody out there? Australian minister leads nation in contacting planet Gliese 581d

12 August 2009

When ET phoned home in 1982, a whole generation dreamed of finding extra-terrestrial life. One inspired moviegoer was Australia’s eccentric science minister Kim Carr.


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.


Kim Carr

Send an interstellar SMS during National Science Week

12 August 2009

Australians will have the opportunity to send text-like messages to potential intelligent life beyond Earth thanks to an initiative to be launched today to mark National Science Week.


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?


Science journalist Simon Singh

COSMOS leads global campaign on media freedom

31 July 2009

A global bloggers' campaign in defence of British science writer Simon Singh - who is being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association - was launched this week by COSMOS magazine.


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 cover Jan/Feb 2009

Wolseley acquires G Magazine, Australia's #1 green media brand

2 February 2009

G Magazine, Australia's award-winning green lifestyle brand founded by the publishers of COSMOS, has been acquired by WolseleyMedia, expanding the specialist publisher's portfolio of iconic brands that include Inside Sport and PC Powerplay.


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.


2008 Bell Awards

Another 7 awards for COSMOS and G Magazine

22 November 2008

COSMOS, Australia's #1 science magazine, has taken out its 27th award in less than four years, while its sister title G Magazine won another four awards at the 2008 Bell Awards for Publishing Excellence in Sydney.


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.