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Dylla and Falk

U.S. physics prize won by COSMOS writer

11 February 2010

Dan Falk, a Canadian science writer, has won the American Institute of Physics' prestigious Science Writing Award for a cover story in COSMOS.


 Dr Elizabeth Finkel and Dr Alan Finkel AM

Inspiring philanthropy

28 January 2010

Dr Alan Finkel AM and Dr Elizabeth Finkel, co-founders of COSMOS, are leading donors to Monash University and the community through the Alan and Elizabeth Finkel Foundation.


Karen Taylor

Two years is too much: flexibility better than long leave, says Karen

3 January 2010

KAREN TAYLOR plans to return to work next month after giving birth to son Charlie six weeks ago. The mother of two from Oyster Bay said her employer had agreed to extremely flexible conditions to encourage her to continue in her job as advertising sales manager at COSMOS magazine after four months' maternity leave.


Wilson da Silva

THE WRITE STUFF: Editor boldly goes where tourists dream to tread

2 January 2010

HE'S about to undertake probably the most daring trip possible, becoming one of the world's first space tourists. But Wilson da Silva says there's only one thing he's worried about: Paris Hilton.


John Pickcrell

Earth Journalism Award for COSMOS writer

18 December 2009

John Pickrell, the Deputy Editor of COSMOS, has taken out the global Climate Change and Nature category at the prestigious 15th Earth Journalism Awards in Copenhagen for a feature article on ocean acidification.


Bell Awards 2009

COSMOS wins Magazine of the Year

18 November 2009

COSMOS, Australia's #1 science magazine, scooped the top honours at Australia's annual Bell Awards for Publishing Excellence, taking out the coveted Magazine of the Year trophy and six others.


Wilson da Silva, Editor of COSMOS

How science drives society

10 November 2009

An interview on the Telstra Leaders Speak Podcasts with Wilson da Silva, Editor of COSMOS, about the importance of science and about National Science Week.


Science in the Pub

Down at the Particle Pub

21 October 2009

There's nothing quite like taking science to the people in the form of their local pub, particularly if it's part of the ongoing Quantum to Cosmos Festival, hosted by the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.


Students from the Karalundi Aboriginal Education Community

Beam them up: 25,000 texts to aliens

29 August 2009

More than 25,000 text messages from Earth zipped past Mars yesterday afternoon on the way to potential alien life forms.


Greetings from Earth: pop over for a barbie

29 August 2009

THERE were pleas of desperation, hopes from the heart, and invitations to visit, if anyone is passing this way.


Earth to Gliese 581d, anyone there?

28 August 2009

The search for human life beyond mother earth is one of those endless pursuits that never ceases to fascinate and intrigue we earthlings. So far, however, there’s been a deathly silence from outerspace to all the signals sent so far, but that’s no deterrent to Australian website, Hello From Earth, which today sent off a new signal to a far off planet with text messages from 25,000 people from all over the world.


Earthly twitters sent into space

28 August 2009

A total of 25,880 messages from 199 countries have been sent into space today as part of a National Science Week initiative.


25,000 texts sent to distant planet

28 August 2009

More than 25,000 messages have been transmitted into outer space in a bid to reach a distant planet that may hold life.


LAMP coders celebrate deep space transmission

28 August 2009

A small group of Sydney-based open source developers will be catching up on some well-deserved rest this weekend after coding a web site in under 40 hours that took in 5.5 million hits in little over a week.


HELLO FROM EARTH

Australians 'twitter' to outer space

28 August 2009

A total of 25,880 messages were collected by the Hello From Earth project, representing people from across 199 countries, an enormous show of support from around the world for this National Science Week initiative.