Departments
The articles of the magazine are placed under "In The News":
- Story One
- Life
- Matter & Energy
- Atom & Cosmos
- Body & Brain
- Earth
The articles featured on the magazine's cover are placed under "Features". The departments that remain constant from issue to issue are:
- From The Editor—A column written by Eva Emerson, the magazine's acting editor-in-chief, that usually highlights the current issue's prime topics.
- Notebook—A page that includes several sections:
- Scientific Observations—A quote from a researcher about science in general.
- Science Past—An excerpt from an older issue of the magazine.
- Science Future—A listing of scientific conventions, events, and premieres in the near future.
- SN Online—Excerpts from articles published online.
- How Bizarre...—An odd or interesting fact that may not be well known to the magazine's audience.
- Bookshelf—Reviews of books that have been recently published.
- Feedback—Letters from readers commenting on the recent Science News articles.
- Comment—An interview with a researcher.
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Famous quotes containing the word departments:
“A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Some of these men had become abstrusely entangled with the spying departments of other nations and would give an amusing jump if you came from behind and tapped them on the shoulder.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)