[1] It contained short articles about general science often excerpted from other publications in the style of Reader's Digest.

[3] In November 1980 the magazine was expanded to an 11 x 8 inch glossy page format with full-length articles and color pictures targeted at a college-educated reader.

At first it tended to favor breathless cover lines, and often turned to pseudoscience topics, including spontaneous human combustion and UFOs.

[4] The magazine briefly re-appeared as a quarterly in 1987, returning to the original small "digest" format, with many short articles and snippets of science information.

An Australian edition under the title Omega Science Digest began in January 1981 and had a circulation of 40,000.