Society For Science And The Public

Society for science was founded in 1921 with a mission to provide in-depth, trustworthy, accurate science journalism for the public. Since then, our offerings have grown to include our flagship print magazine science news and its website. We also created science news explores, where younger readers, their families and teachers can explore new discoveries across science, technology, engineering, and medicine, and learn how research helps us all understand our world and our lives. Through its science news learning program, the society provides science news magazine and supplementary educator guides to more than 5,800 middle and high schools across the u.s., making current science accessible to students and educators. Science news has more than 116,000 paid subscribers, and over 17 million unique online users in 2023. Science news has 5.1 million followers on twitter/x, and 2.7 million followers on facebook, with an additional 124,000 across other social channels. The science news explores print magazine has nearly 16,000 individual subscribers, while the website drew more than 5 million unique visitors in 2023 and over 1 million facebook followers.

Alumni program: in 2014, the society established an alumni program that seeks to engage society alumni through online networks, events and volunteer opportunities. The program also works to re-establish connections with alumni who have lost touch with the society. The community is comprised of more than 75,000 sts, isef and middle school competition alumni across the globe.

Special initiatives - these are special projects geared toward the betterment of the society overall and supported by board approved funding.