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Science and technology magazines published in the United States
- Wired (magazine)Wired magazine launched on the 6th of January 1993, handed out by its founders at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Two American expatriates, Louis Rossetto…
- Popular Astronomy (US magazine)Popular Astronomy first reached readers in September 1893, born from a tradition that stretched back to a predecessor called The Sidereal Messenger.
- Discover (magazine)Leon Jaroff watched magazine sales climb whenever a science topic appeared on the cover of Time. He saw this pattern in 1971 and began pushing for a…
- Astrobiology MagazineHelen Matsos launched Astrobiology Magazine in 1999 to connect scientists with everyday readers. She served as the chief editor and executive producer during…
- SpaceNewsThe year 1989 marked the birth of SpaceNews under the banner of Army Times Publishing Company. This new publication entered a market where space was often…
- Popular MechanicsPopular Mechanics hit newsstands for the first time on the 11th of January 1902, a weekly publication out of Chicago with a mission Henry Haven Windsor…
- Scientific AmericanScientific American hit newsstands on the 28th of August, 1845, as a four-page weekly newspaper. It cost a few cents and arrived in a country still debating…
- Smithsonian (magazine)Smithsonian magazine arrived in 1970 with a mandate unlike any other publication of its era. S. Dillon Ripley, then-Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution…
- Astronomy (magazine)Astronomy magazine was born in August 1973 from a college class project. Stephen A. Walther, a journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens…
- MIT Technology ReviewMIT Technology Review has been tracking the frontiers of science and invention since 1899, making it the oldest technology magazine in the world by its own…
- Physics TodayPhysics Today has been landing on the desks of physicists every month since May 1948. It is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics, and…
- Skeptical InquirerSkeptical Inquirer began its life under a different name entirely: The Zetetic, a word drawn from Greek meaning "skeptical seeker" or "inquiring skeptic."…
- IEEE SpectrumIEEE Spectrum arrived in January 1964, replacing a publication called Electrical Engineering and bringing with it a new ambition: to be the voice of the…
- National GeographicNational Geographic began its life on the 22nd of September 1888 as a modest scholarly journal sent to 165 charter members.