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Not quite the appliance of science

Advantages: Good quality writing; jobs section; Feedback!
Disadvantages: Almost no photos or illustrations; no free archive section

New Scientist is an excellent magazine - it's probably the best general source of science news for the intelligent layperson, sitting as it does between the rather sensationalistic stories that make it to the newspapers and the utter incomprehensibilty of ...

davidbuttery 25.07.2001 · Read full review
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newscientist.com

Advantages: very useful - contains a lot of information, comprehensive archives, loads quickly, easy to navigate, generally good.
Disadvantages: n/a

This the online version of the magazine. The stories are there, and though the layout's a little bland (i'm still lost without pictures) it's easy to navigate. The sites fast loading and archives of articles are comprehensive. It's a good place to look f ...

artemisia 17.05.2001 · Read full review
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The best science magazine but online

Advantages: New Scientist - but on-line
Disadvantages: Redesigned site is not very good

The New Scientist website is one of my favourites. Every week they put some of the articles from the magazine on the website. OK, some of the articles from the magazine are left out, but there are often some really good articles on all sorts of different ...

adamdavid 22.05.2001 · Read full review
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A haven for scientific research

Advantages: Nice archive
Disadvantages: Only free for 7 days!

After a two day discussion on a newsgroup about an article I could only just remember I was told the article in question was from New Scientist. The actual article was printed in 1997 (November 15th) Being a poor student I checked out the site hoping ...

FallScrape 16.02.2003 · Read full review
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All you ntk about ntk

Advantages: Informative, entertaining, compact.
Disadvantages: Obscure, cynical.

"They stole our revolution. Now we're stealing it back." is the punchline for Need to Know (www.ntk.net)- a weekly- updated website of a few thousand word which describes itself as "a useful and interesting UK digest of things that happened last week or ...

dogscoff 26.07.2000 · Read full review
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