Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American popular science monthly. The first edition was published in October 1980 in the Time Publishing Group, 1987 Family Media which was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 1991. Since October 2005, Discover is owned by two investment companies in the media sector. Initially was Bob Guccione, Jr., founder of the music magazine Spin and the men's magazine Gear editor.

Discover had been planned as a popular science magazine, a little easier to read than Scientific American but more detailed and science -oriented than Popular Science. At the time of first publication and other science magazines came on the market, including 80 Science of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the older journals Science News and Science Digest participated in a similar format. Some of the competing magazines failed the mid-1980s. With Discover you decided to talk to even more speculative issues to a wider audience and took, among other psychological article to. This economically very successful approach led to conflicts with the former editor in chief Leon Jaroff, who returned to Time.

Since April 2009 January / February and July / August issues are published as double issues.

To the website of the magazine includes a number more famous blogs:

  • Phil Plaits Bad Astronomy
  • Cosmic Variance
  • Carl The Loom Room
  • Science Fiction emergency
  • 80 beats
  • Melissa Lafskys Reality Base
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