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Cosmos https://cosmosmagazine.com/ has been a national quarterly magazine on general science published by The Royal Institution of Australia Inc (RiAus), a science communications organisation based in Adelaide.
In May 2025, the following message was sent to subscribers:
“After a review of its magazine business, CSIRO Publishing, the national science agency’s editorially independent publishing arm, has made the difficult decision to stop the production of Cosmos Magazine. The final print edition of Cosmos Magazine will be published in June 2025. Digital subscriptions will also end in June 2025.
A bright future
The Cosmos online news service will continue at cosmosmagazine.com but will transition later in the year to CSIRO Publishing’s new digital destination for science content. The new website will publish peer reviewed journals, e-books and fact-based science news to bring together our audiences for a sustainable future. A news team will be employed to continue publishing stories about the latest science discoveries as well as interviews with scientists.
Make sure you are signed up to Cosmos newsletters and keep up to date with those developments.
This decision was not made lightly and mirrors a wider shift of audiences away from print magazines and the rising costs of producing print magazines.
We wish to thank all the writers, staff and readers that have supported Cosmos magazine over so many years.
If you have any enquiries about … the future of Cosmos please contact us on publishing.sales@csiro.au or 1300 788000.”
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Royal Society of Queensland member Ariel Marcy has made available her free science game design platform, DIY Go Extinct! Students can create one-of-a-kind Go Extinct! games featuring evolutionary trees of Australian marsupials, megafauna, flowers, dinosaurs, venomous snakes, and citizens of the Great Barrier Reef! (available now at www.steamgalaxy.com/design-your-own-game/). The platform, supported by grants from the Advance Queensland initiative and from the U.S. Embassy continues to be live for families, game enthusiasts and classrooms alike to use worldwide.
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In 2019, the BioDiscovery Project continued a survey of biodiversity at the Woodfordia property, site of the annual Woodford Folk Festival. Spider expert Robert Whyte, a member of the Royal Society of Queensland, has supplied this fascinating report of the survey (5.8MB) and the stunning photographs.
Report of field work at Woodfordia site
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This article briefly explains the value of estuaries and the threats they are facing.
Estuaries – A Primer
Estuaries – once the world’s powerhouse of productivity – are now predominantly the habitat of humans. Yes, the world’s most productive ecosystems are where tide meets freshwater, a mixing zone of biodiversity and food – of diatoms, phytoplankton, birds, fish and prawns.
Unfortunately globally, these are also now the most trashed systems. Humans love to live near water, and here in Australia the vast majority of us crowd the coast and fill, drain, divert, dam and occupy what were once our estuaries. Continue reading