The following three sites contain the magazines that are perhaps of most general interest to the civil service science and engineering community.
New Scientist
Science
The Engineer
This site holds a collection of the Bad Science columns that are written by Dr Ben Goldacre and published in the Guardian newspaper. The columns cover a wide range of scientific topics that have made it into the wider public domain, including how the media has published particular stories.
The Naked ScientistsThe Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public.
This site includes archives of their radio show, which is broadcast on some BBC local radio stations on Sunday evenings, along with guest articles, discussion forums and book reviews.