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by corin_ 5300 days ago
It's an English magazine that's somewhere inbetween your two options. Generally their reporting is pretty good and they avoid headlines for the sake of headlines, however they do put a lot of focus on making their content understandable to non-scientists - it's aimed at smart, curious people, not scientists.

An example of this is their "last word" feature, where they take a question from a reader and let anyone write in with answers - these are usually random questions like "Why is the sky blue?" or "If it's raining, will I get less wet if I run than if I walk?" They've also released two or three Last Word compilation books.

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I would not call that "in between". It is more like two dimensions:

   scientific publication : pseudoscience = New Scientist : Sensationalist Publication
It is comparable to Scientific American.
If anyone is interested in the sound of this there is something similar over on this subreddit:

http://reddit.com/r/askscience

I wasn't talking about the article, but the 'ask for a scientific answer' type service.