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Discover magazine was launched in October 1980 after years of internal resistance within Time Inc. The publication targeted educated non-professionals seeking content easier than Scientific American but more detailed than Popular Science.
Bob Guccione Jr. purchased Discover from Disney in October 2005 before being ousted as CEO in October 2007. LabX Media Group acquired the title from Kalmbach Publishing on the 8th of November 2024.
Leon Jaroff added articles on psychology and psychiatry to appeal to a wider audience despite initial objections that these topics were not solid sciences. The Skeptical Eye column disappeared along with other established features while controversial subjects like How the Universe Will End began appearing instead of hard reporting.
Time Inc. sold Discover to Family Media in 1987 for twenty-six million dollars. Revenue for 1986 totaled six point nine million dollars while the annual net loss hit ten million dollars.
PBS aired Discover: The World of Science from 1983 through 1990 as a monthly hour-long news magazine. The website later included a collection of blogs related to science including Cosmic Variance and Carl Zimmer's The Loom.