An extraordinary era in 80,000-plus articles

This issue marks a milestone for Science News — the 100th birthday of our magazine.

It’s been an extraordinary century, both for science and for us as a news organization. One of the first big stories we covered was the 1922 discovery that insulin could successfully treat diabetes in people. There have been so many more milestones since then, including cracking the atom, the synthesis of new materials like nylon and carbon fiber, explorations of space, the computer revolution and gene editing.