Pithy, pertinent, and inclusive

This weekly, readable science magazine runs about ten pages per issue and covers the widest range of topics. There are usually two feature articles and then some updates and tidbits. The writing is targeted for a lay audience but it is not dumbed down and, being so short and to the point, it lacks any of the fluff of thicker, glossier magazines.

Amazon Distorts its Prices

This is, as you may have gathered from the title of this 'review' a commentary on Amazon and not the magazine (which I highly recommend).

Amazon claims to be saving you $113 over the normal subscription price when actually they are saving you $11.53. To be sure a savings, but hardly the 72% they claim. One need only visist the Science News website to confirm this.

The best science magazine for the lay person in the US

I'm not sure how long Science News has been in print, but I remember it from my childhood and that was over 40 years ago. And desprite all the competition from glossy rags like "Discover" and the newly-denatured "Scientific American", Science News survives pretty much unchanged form its earliest days.

The formula is simple: Brief summaries of contemporary science stories that are written for lay readers who are interested in science, and not in personalities or politics. Science News doesn't insult the reader by dumbing things down- and at the same time it doesn't bury stories in jargon or indeciperable formulas.

Well written, concise, and equally readable by the intelligent child or the curious adult.