Science News is an American bi-weekly
magazineMagazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
devoted to short articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical
journalIn academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
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Science News has been published since 1922 by
Society for Science & the PublicSociety for Science & the Public is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of science, through its science education programs and publications, including the weekly Science News magazine....
, a
non-profit organizationA nonprofit organization is an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals . Examples of NPOs include charities , trade unions, and public arts organizations...
. From 1922 to 1966, it was called
Science News-Letter.
Kendrick FrazierKendrick Frazier was born in Windsor, Colorado is a science writer and editor. He was the editor of Science News for several years. Since 1977 he has been the editor of Skeptical Inquirer, the journal published by CSICOP....
is a former editor. In 2007, Tom Siegfried became the editor-in-chief of the magazine.
The current website was redeployed in April of 2008.
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Science News is an American bi-weekly
magazineMagazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
devoted to short articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical
journalIn academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
s.
Science News has been published since 1922 by
Society for Science & the PublicSociety for Science & the Public is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of science, through its science education programs and publications, including the weekly Science News magazine....
, a
non-profit organizationA nonprofit organization is an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals . Examples of NPOs include charities , trade unions, and public arts organizations...
. From 1922 to 1966, it was called
Science News-Letter.
Kendrick FrazierKendrick Frazier was born in Windsor, Colorado is a science writer and editor. He was the editor of Science News for several years. Since 1977 he has been the editor of Skeptical Inquirer, the journal published by CSICOP....
is a former editor. In 2007, Tom Siegfried became the editor-in-chief of the magazine.
The current website was redeployed in April of 2008.
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distributes an audio edition of
Science News.