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Science News
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Cover of the November 16, 2013, issue
Editor in ChiefNancy Shute [1]
Former editorsTom Siegfried, Edwin Emery Slosson, Kendrick Frazier, Robert J. Trotter, Joel Greenberg, Julie Ann Miller
Categories Science
FrequencyBi-weekly
Publisher Maya Ajmera
Total circulation
(2018)
110,518
First issue1922
Company Society for Science
CountryUnited States
Based inWashington, D.C.
LanguageEnglish
Website www.sciencenews.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
ISSN 0036-8423

Science News (SN) is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical journals.

Contents

History

Science News has been published since 1922 by Society for Science & the Public, a non-profit organization founded by E. W. Scripps in 1920. American chemist Edwin Slosson served as the publication's first editor. From 1922 to 1966, it was called Science News Letter. [2] The title was changed to Science News with the March 12, 1966, issue (vol. 89, no. 11). [3]

Tom Siegfried was the editor from 2007 to 2012. In 2012, Siegfried stepped down, and Eva Emerson became the Editor in Chief of the magazine. In 2017, Eva Emerson stepped down to become the editor of a new digital magazine, Annual Reviews. On February 1, 2018, Nancy Shute became the Editor in Chief of the magazine.[ citation needed ]

In April 2008, the magazine changed from a weekly format to the current biweekly format, and the website was also redeployed. The April 12 issue (Vol.173 #15) was the last weekly issue. The first biweekly issue (Vol.173 #16) was dated May 10 and featured a new design. The 4-week break between the last weekly issue and first biweekly issue was explained in the Letter from the Publisher (p. 227) in the April 12 issue.[ citation needed ]

In 2022, the website name changed to Science News Explores. The magazine is part of the Science News Media Group.

Departments

The articles of the magazine are placed under "News":

The articles featured on the magazine's cover are placed under "Features". The departments that remain constant from issue to issue are:

See also

Science News Explores

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References

  1. Shute, Nancy (October 8, 2022). "Next-gen science as told by next-gen journalists" (paper). Science News. Vol. 202, no. 7.
  2. Gillis, Anna Maria (March 1, 1997). "Looking Back: From News Wire to Newsweekly, 75 years of Science Service" (PDF). Science News. 151 (9): S10. doi:10.1002/scin.5591512706 . Retrieved March 13, 2010.
  3. Science news. Science Service. 1966. Retrieved March 13, 2010.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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