Started as a monthly magazine all the way back in 1872, Popular Science offered a hopeful vision ... Flip through a few issues from the 1950s and 60s, and you won’t see pulpy stories about ...

What happened? And, more important to science professionals, what's going to happen? The Rise and Fall Between 1977 and 1986 nearly 20 new magazines, 17 new television shows, and more than 60 ...