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There must be a market niche available for a serious magazine popularizing developments in science.

Someone here at FR pointed me in this direction but I have not had a chance to really look at it. The articles from it posted here have been pretty good.

'NITE ALL!

Try this: New Scientist

I find New Scientist to be at least twice as bad as SciAm. I have just discontinued my subscription to them. Scarcely an issue goes by without criticizing President Bush, American Policies or otherwise snuggling up to the enviro whackos. Especially before 9/11 they were always publishing photos of Pres. Bush with flames as a back drop or polluted air or something. They are really into graphic manipulation at New Scientist.

Sorry Striper, but it appears that this magazine should be called New Age Scientist. It's as full of the same old bull about impending disasters, with generous hints of socialist remedies, as the other magazines discussed here. Probably has Al Gore on its editorial board. Here is an excerpt I found under the heading of 'Environment'.

We humans are about as subtle as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Acid rain and global warming show that we hold immense power over life on Earth, yet we wield it indiscriminately.

The damage we do is increasing. In the next 20 years, the population will increase by 1.5 billion. These people will need food, water and electricity, but already our soils are vanishing, fisheries are being killed off, wells are drying up, and the burning of fossil fuels is endangering the lives of millions. We are heading for cataclysm.

In this section you will find three scenarios - three routes to catastrophe that we face unless we can tackle the evils of overconsumption and the yawning gap between rich and poor. Climate change, pollution and population growth each has surprising and potentially devastating impacts. Aspects of all three will strike before this century is out.

This stuff would be hilarious, being so obviously off-base, except that so many take it seriously. (Hey, it's 'science' fer gosh sakes!) Note that all these disasters were previously predicted to occur is the last century. They moved the date ahead to some indefinite time to keep people scared and cover up their mistakes -- just like old-line Marxists were obliged to keep moving ahead the date of the 'inevitable' collapse of Capitalism.