High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Science News is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to short articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical journals. Science News has been published since 1922 by Society for Science & the Public, a non-profit organization founded by E. W. Scripps in 1920. American chemist Edwin Slosson served as the publication`s first editor. From 1922 to 1966, it was called Science News-Letter. The title was changed to Science News with the March 12, 1966 issue (vol. 89, no. 11).