New Scientist

Frequency: 51 issues per year  |  Usual Issue Price: £3.50

New Scientist is essential reading for anyone with a passion for exploration and discovery. Every week we bring you the latest news, ideas and discoveries from every field of science and technology direct to your door. Subscribe to New Scientist and, as well as saving 20%, you will also get unlimited free access to the 15 - year online archive.

Typical content and features in New Scientist magazine:

News

- Editorial - often offering a perspective on scientific topics which are current political issues.
- Upfront - a summary of major news placed in a scientific perspective.
- This Week - short articles on reports or results presented this week.
- In Brief - a summary of research news and discovery.

Technology

- Recent advances and developments in technology.
- Trends - showing how new technology is altering the way we live our lives.

Regulars

- Comment and Analysis - Offering a personal commentary on a contemporary topic.
- Letters
- Essay or Interview - often with a pioneer of a scientific development or an influential political or business leader.
- Perspectives/Second Sight - An alternative point of view on a pertinent piece of information.
- Politics - Westminster or Washington diary, describing how science is done in the capital.
- The Word - A short article explaining an intriguing scientific term.
- Enigma - a mathematical puzzle.
- Histories - how our knowledge of a topic came to be.
- The Insider - careers/courses section for professional scientists.
- Bookends - reviews.
- Feedback - short commentaries on amusing topics; in the past this has featured "nominative determinism" (whereby someone has a name particularly appropriate for their job), product warning labels, and unusual units of measurements (such as the size of countries being measured in 'Frances', and iceberg sizes in 'Belgiums').
- Last Word - write-in questions and answers about scientific phenomena.

Features

- Commissioned in-depth articles on scientific topics. For example in the 2005-04-16 issue this section featured articles on Superatoms, the allergy epidemic, cloud seeding and oil exploration in Alaska.
- There are also occasionally special pull-out sections on an important topic - eg. in January 2006 there was a feature on avian influenza.

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