Which scientific journals are the most popular and widespread in the world? Which magazines are the best? What do the facts say?

Among the huge number of existing popular science journals, not everyone can boast of special articles that they publish. Let's talk about the most famous who proved to the whole world that the quality of the material is in the first place.
Consider the top 7 popular science magazines.

7. Journal "Scientific American"
In the seventh position - "Scientific American" - the oldest popular science magazine in the United States, first published in 1845 and was a four-page newspaper. New inventions and reports of the U.S. Patent Office were presented to readers, as at that time the Office was the most useful and authoritative source of information.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, this magazine became famous for publishing the encyclopedia "The America", which contains 16 volumes. This is one of the largest encyclopedias in english. In order to attract a wide audience, SciAM positions itself as a kind of forum where scientists from all over the world share their discoveries and thoughts. The circulation of this magazine is about 500 thousand copies. There is not only a printed, but also an electronic version of the journal.

6. Popular science magazine "Discover"
In sixth place is the magazine "Discover", which was first published in 1980 and since then has won the trust of many readers. The main "bait" for the reader were articles on psychology and the column "Skeptical about", which revealed the myths and fakes of the scientific world.

Over time, due to the change of leadership, many of the columns disappeared, and the design of the magazine changed. The magazine wrote about serious things, but there was a tradition when one article was published comically and was a hoax, only readers learned about this already in the next issue of the magazine.

All the most amazing facts and technical inventions, stunning finds and scientific sensations, unsolved mysteries and modern achievements in medicine - all this the magazine "Discover" offers to learn from the first person.

The name of the magazine "Discover" suggests that any discovery is an exchange of information, a discussion of exciting and unexpected facts. The creators of the magazine in every possible way want to prove that our life cannot be compared with a zebra, an animal that has one black and white fur coat in its wardrobe. The popular science magazine "Discover" proves that our life is bright, fascinating and colorful, full of interesting discoveries.

The magazine contains not only mysterious and fascinating facts about the planet Earth, but also about the entire Universe, as well as about the inner cosmos of man. The magazine is dedicated to technologies and inventions, unusual corners of the planet, mysteries of nature and civilizations, spiritual searches and creativity, taming the stars and expanding consciousness.

Under the cover of "Discover" is collected all the intriguing and fascinating, valuable and useful, everything that happens not only in the surrounding world, but also inside a person. On its pages you can find the modern achievements of the human mind and the unsolved secrets of the planet. Readers of the magazine will acquire a baggage of knowledge in various fields of science and culture, with a willingness to explore the undiscovered corners of the globe and the Universe.

5. Journal "Popular Mechanic"
Magazine has been published since January 11, 1902, the founder is Henry Windsor, who picked up such an incredibly apt and capacious name for his brainchild. Even then, the developing road transport and heavy industry were gaining momentum. Looking up at the sky, people speculated about celestial mechanics. Gradually, Popular Mechanic, a magazine about the world of science and technology, won the first readers in America.

Hearst Corporation became the owner of the magazine in 1958, now the magazine is published in nine languages in several countries of the world, the circulation is more than 1 million 200 thousand copies. All issues of "Popular Mechanics" can be read in Google Books, there is also its Russian analogue.

4. Scientific journal "Popular Science"
The fourth place in our top is occupied by "Popular Science", which does not need additional introduction. "Popular Science" has been produced since May 1872, has 58 awards and prizes.

This magazine is a real embodiment of popular science. The journal "Popular Science" published articles on the results of the work of contemporary scientists, such as Darwin, Huxley, Pierce, Cattel, Edison, James, Dewey.

The popularity of the magazine faded every year until it was sold to a new publisher in the early twentieth century. Only in 1915, after the re-sale, began the active life of the magazine and its dawn. The circulation of 1323041 of the magazine speaks about the popularity of the magazine and elevates it to the second line of our top list.

Currently, the archive of the famous American journal is posted in open access on the Internet, where the issues from the day of the foundation of "Popular Science" - 140 years ago - are scanned. This project took place in cooperation with Google, everything is designed in its original form, while you can view all the issues for free in chronological order.

Here are some of the topics presented in Popular Science magazine to readers: "Five phenomena that science cannot explain"; "10 'facts' about GMOs"; "Five of the most terrible threats to humanity"; "Experts on Uterine Transplantation". The magazine publishes a lot of diverse and relevant information in the world of astrospace developments, aviation, energy, new technologies in the field of automotive industry, etc. And in the November 1970 issue there was a detailed article on the necessary security measures against hijackers.

The American popular science magazine Popular Science is published in 30 languages in 45 countries.

3. The journal "Science" is one of the most authoritative journals in the world, which has been published in English since 1880 with a circulation of 130,000 copies.

Access to the magazine via the Internet forms a large readership, the number of its admirers is one million people. The journal is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
For research and the general public, the journal provided free access to a special collection of articles on Ebola.

An interesting fact is that the journal Science holds an annual competition "Dance your dissertation". Participants with the help of dance must "retell" their dissertation. Once the main prize was received by the British bioengineer Jacob Brubert from the University of Cambridge with a dance about the failures and difficulties in the development of artificial heart valves.

In the field of chemistry, one of the winners of the competition was the Russian scientist Evgeny Sogorin, a biologist at the Institute of Protein of the Russian Academy of Sciences from Pushino. His composition is a black and white waltz in which he danced the movement of ribosomes during protein synthesis, showed how ribosomes do not become entangled in strands of RNA and DNA. The scientist, who was engaged in professional ballroom dancing for three years, destroyed the stereotype that science and dance are incompatible. The idea of such a number came when the scientist noticed that the movements of couples in the dance are similar to molecular mechanisms.

Carla Bruni (Scotland, University of Glasgow) won with a dissertation in biology on the topic of increasing the resistance of bacteria to the action of antibiotics and the emergence of new microbes that are invulnerable to drugs.

In the field of social sciences, Margaret Danilovich (University of Chicago, USA) won. In the composition, she showed that it helps to cope with low levels of physical activity in the elderly. The video showed the disastrous consequences of low motor activity: obesity, increased bone fragility, increased mortality from heart and vascular diseases.

Molecular biologist from Belgium Emmanuelle Alalouf created a ballet about the war between the human immune system and cancer cells in the bone marrow. With her work, Emmanuelle Alalouf won the Audience Award.

2. Another fascinating journal worthy of attention "The journal of Archaeological Science"

The journal of archaeological science is published for scientists and archaeologists who are interested in promoting the development and application of scientific methods and methodologies in all fields of archaeology. Original research works, review articles of archaeological significance are published here.

The journal of Archaeological Scince is a kind of international forum for scientists and archaeologists who share common views and interests in the field of archaeological research.

An interesting fact is that on its pages the results of research on the place where wine appeared for the first time in the world were published. In 2010, in the north of Greece, archaeologists discovered clay jugs, whose age is at least 6300 years. Pottery was in the ruins of a structure completely destroyed by a fire of that time. In the area of Dikili Tash, where ancient jugs were discovered, Neolithic objects were found before. Next to the wine vessels, petrified particles of crushed grapes were found, which confirms the fact of making local farmers drinks from wine.

Scientists from Paris and Thessaloniki conducted a chemical analysis of the find and confirmed that traces of the oldest wine in the world remained in the jugs. Studies have shown that chemical markers of red wine are present on the walls of blood vessels. Previously, the research of scientists was based on the presence on the walls of ancient jugs only of chemical signs of grapes. On ancient dishes found in the north of Greece, it was possible to find markers of fermentation of grapes - succinic and beer-viograde acids. The research will help to study the history of winemaking and expand the geography of wine consumption by ancient civilizations.

1. The winner of the rating is the magazine "National Geographic".
In our opinion, the publication deservedly occupies a leading position among popular science magazines in the world and producesIn 33 languages. The journal was published by the National Geographic Society in 1888, which initially published only scientific articles. and the illustrations did not appear until 1905. Photos created a corporate identity for the magazine and saved it from ruin.

To date, the circulation of the magazine is 4 million copies and has an audience of more than 40 million people.

The magazine publishes exclusive materials on history, culture and science, as well as unique photographs. An interesting fact is that in 1985, a picture of a green-eyed Afghan girl at the age of about 13 was published on the cover of National Geographic magazine. For all the time of the magazine's existence, this picture became the most famous photo of the American photojournalist Steve McCurry in the Camp of Afghan refugees. In 2002, the national geographic team went to Afghanistan in search of the girl. Then they managed to establish her identity and McCurry made another photo portrait of Sharbat Gula. Sharbat Gula was born in Afghanistan in 1972. After the destruction of the village in the 80s, she was left an orphan and, together with relatives, was taken to the Nasig Bagh refugee camp on the border with Pakistan.

In 1984, the young refugee was noticed by photographer Steve McCurry. In the 90s, Sharbat returned to her homeland, but was forced to leave the country because of the turbulent situation. In order not to return to the combat zone, the young woman issued forged documents in the name of Sharbat Bibi and has been living in Pakistan since 2014. During a raid by Pakistani security services, Sharbat Gula was arrested, if her guilt is confirmed, she faces a fine of about $ 3,000 and imprisonment for a term of 7 to 14 years.

In the race of popularity and quality of popular science magazines, all this makes National Geographic the undisputed leader.