The
American Association for the Advancement of Science (
AAAS) is an American international
non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among
scientists, defending
scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting
scientific education and
science outreach for the betterment of all humanity. It is the world's largest general scientific society, with 126,995 individual and institutional members at the end of 2008, and is the publisher of the well-known scientific journal
Science, which has a weekly circulation of 138,549.