Science News

I subscribe to two American science magazines: Scientific American and Discover.  Some serious scientists seem to complain that Scientific American was filled with quite professional articles but now its articles are written by amateur-like freelancer writers.  However, I love this magazine because its editor and writers seem to try to avoid technical jargons and use plain English.  It is quite useful to encourage kids to have interest in science.  This magazine can be subscribed overseas with about 40 dollars.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

Recently I began subscribing to Discover to complement Scientific American.  I am now regretting the decision.  Discover is less sleek than Scientific American in terms of its overall design and editing.  In particular, contributing writers of Discover look worse than those of Scientific American in terms of their academic background, depth of knowledge, and reputation.  Scientific American rarely has commercials, whereas Discover contains several cheesy commercials, such as watches, jewels, and hardware tools.  How funny in a commercial of hardware tools in a science magazine!


Sometimes I visit Live Science to get recently updated science news.  We are now living in such society that needs recent science information in order to have conversations with friends and colleagues.

http://www.livescience.com/

I guess that Popular Science is less academic than Scientific American but better than Discover.

www.popsci.com

Most science magazines concentrate on natural science, such as biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science.  However, unlike its title, Phys.org seems to cover various fields including social science, economics, and business management.

phys.org