Science, a multi disciplinary, weekly peer reviewed journal, ranks as the world's most prestigious scientific journal. The journal was established by Thomas Edison in 1880 and has been the official journal of AAAS since 1900. Content includes original research, news, book reviews, and coverage of events in the scientific community. (Zinio.com)

Science: Published for scientists, engineers and others interested in science; contains articles, original research reports, news sections, editorials, and letters. Special issues devoted to science-related topics such as biotechnology. (Amazon.com)

Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals. The peer-reviewed journal, first published in 1880 is circulated weekly and has a print subscriber base of around 130,000. Because institutional subscriptions and online access serve a larger audience, its estimated readership is one million people.

The major focus of the journal is publishing important original scientific research and research reviews, but Science also publishes science-related news, opinions on science policy and other matters of interest to scientists and others who are concerned with the wide implications of science and technology. Although most scientific journals focus on a specific field, Science and its rival Nature cover the full range of scientific disciplines. Science places special emphasis on biology and the life sciences because of the expansion of biotechnology and genetics over the past few decades[citation needed]. Science's impact factor for 2006 was 30.028 (as measured by Thomson ISI).

Although it is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, membership in the AAAS is not required to publish in Science. Papers are accepted from authors around the world. Competition to publish in Science is very intense, as an article published in such a highly-cited journal can lead to attention and career advancement for the authors. Fewer than 10% of articles submitted to the editors are accepted for publication and all research articles are subject to peer review before they appear in the magazine.

Science is based in Washington, D.C., USA, with a second office in Cambridge, England. (Wikipedia.org)

Science -- the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.  

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Read Science, August 15, 2008 Online

This Week in Science
    Editor summaries of this week's papers.

Editorial:
Dying for Science?
    M. R. C. Greenwood, Gordon Ringold, and Doug Kellogg 

Editors' Choice
    Highlights of the recent literature.

Science Podcast
    Summary: The 15 August 2008 show includes ancient paintings inside France's Chauvet cave, T cell–based cancer immunotherapy, modeling aerosols in the Amazon, and more.  

News of the Week

ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION: Full-Genome Sequencing Paved the Way From Spores to a Suspect
    Martin Enserink
    Summary: Scientists say a key document unveiled last week now enables a reconstruction of the trail that led the FBI from the deadly anthrax letters back to Bruce Ivins's lab at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

CLIMATE PREDICTION: Seasonal-Climate Forecasts Improving Ever So Slowly
    Richard A. Kerr
    Summary: Of the dozens of forecasting techniques proffered by government, academic, and private-sector climatologists, all but two are virtually worthless, according to a new study. 

APPLIED PHYSICS: Bizarre 'Metamaterials' for Visible Light in Sight?
    Adrian Cho
    Summary: "Metamaterials" that can bend visible light may be within reach, thanks to advances reported this week online in Nature and on page 930 of this issue of Science.

HIV/AIDS: Treatment and Prevention Exchange Vows at International Conference
    Jon Cohen
    Summary: AIDS researchers have long argued that HIV prevention and treatment efforts should go hand in hand, but they rarely do. Their fickle relationship received intense scrutiny at the XVII International AIDS Conference held in Mexico City last week.  

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