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A Website with Real Science News?
TechnoSophos asks: "How can I get the real scoop on the latest scientific research? The fourth-grade-reading-level newspaper version of the story is rarely accurate, and is too focused on the wow factor. On the other hand, neither searching for arbitrary strings, nor browsing by journal or even topic is particularly effective if the task is simply staying up to date with the latest news. I don't need gorgeous graphics, nor do I need someone with a Bachelor's in Literary Criticism telling me what the research is about. I just want the cold, hard facts -- lots of 'em."
ScienceNews
I used to get the print version of their weekly pamphlet. It's aimed at the science-knowledgeable public.
Subscribe to Science and Nature. Both of them have encapsulations and summaries with implications on the hottest articles published in each week's issue. Both have on-line versions. Also, Scientific American can be good (once was great) for perspective articles by world experts.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
Not to be a pain but maybe if we knew what you were interested in and what level of science you're into it would be helpful.
Like me for instance: I'm far from being an astrophysicist but I consider the Discovery Channel version of science insulting. I normally read the dumbed down news and go to other sources to find out more about the elements of the story to get me more familiar with the concepts. Normally it comes full circle to some better articles relating to the original subject. Like for math concepts I normally first turn to Wolfram Mathworld.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
The home pages for the Royal Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/ and the public face of the American Chemical Society, http://www.chemistry.org/, as well as the American Physics Society http://www.aip.org/. It's a lot of foraging, but it will get you the technical gory details. If your local library has it, Chemical and Engineering News has roundups both in the front of the magazine, and in a one-page science-technology roundup. The rest of the mag is pretty much chemical industry, but has articles on particular areas at times.
As a previous poster mentioned, Science http://www.sciencemag.org/ and Nature http://www.nature.com/ are good all in one stops.
Personally, I start every monday lunch off with browsing the table of contents of JACS, J. Phys. Chem., Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, and J. Org. Chem. If you're not a chemist, these will probably bore you to death, but it's where I get my science news from, other than the Tuesday NYT.
the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air. R. S. Mulliken
I usually check out EurekAlert! every once in a while. I find it decent and think it might be the thing you're looking for.
Here's some of the sources I use...
For general stuff, News@Nature is fairly good, although much of their content requires a subscription.
There's also a few blogs I regularly read which are quite good at offering in-depth analysis of recent scientific news in specific fields:
* Space science: Planetary Society's blog (note that the main author, Emily Lakdawalla, is on maternity leave, so at the moment there's some guest-authors of varying quality)
* Biology/evolution: Carl Zimmer's The Loom
* Pharmaceuticals: In The Pipline
* Future tech trends: http://futurepundit.com/
Slashdot! It is my only source for science news.
(when you stop laughing, please mod someone else down)
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
If you're after biology news, try http://biologynews.net/
"A week in the lab saves an hour in the library"
This is an incredibly ignorant statement. You've clearly never read any CS Monitor stories. They are a high quality, fairly unbiased publication. They definitely don't let the whackjob worldview of their parent church seep into their journalism.
- EurekAlert
- ScienceDaily
Enjoy!I sort of agree with you there. A friend of mine asked me one day if I had heard about the new 1 TB drives that fit in a small space or something. There are always new ones. That wasn't an important advancment he was talking about, just one of many incremental changes.
It does take a while for the gravity of a discovery to sink in. Until then, xbox sounds good!
I have freaks! I did something right...
Errrm. This kind of post deserves a -1 I'm an Idiot mod. The CS monitor is one of the most respected sources of news out there. In fact, in most of the articles that have touched on the current "debate", CS has come down on the side of science not the religous beliefs of the young-earth creationists.
My suspicion is that you just don't like the "Christian" in the name. Since your comments are not grounded in reality, this makes you a bigot.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
I would recommend you check out New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns. They're not going to go into things at the level of Nature or Science, but will give you quality stories that are food for thought and starting points for further research. As a former scientist, I'd also mention that Science and Nature, while great publications, are cost prohibitive for individuals (unless you use your local library), and are tedious to wade through unless you have a tremendous amount of time.
This is an incredibly ignorant statement. You've clearly never read any CS Monitor stories.
Read? What's this read stuff? This is slashdot. Here it's out right, Nay! our obligation to badmouth anything that makes any reference to Christianity without gathering the facts. After all, if we bothered with doing a tad of research and not jumping to assumptions what kind of logical discussions could we have?
But mind you, if it was a bash against any other religion we'd just be small minded bigots instead of the enlightened bashers of Christianity.
Real Science, American Style
These articles are particularly interesting:
Museum Gives Different View on Creation
Global Warming: Serious Threat or Alarmism?
A link for the contextually challenged.
Actually, the Christian Science Monitor is one of the better papers out there. It does a very good job of avoiding the sensationalistic shit we find it most other America media. Perhaps that's because they use their own reporters, rather than just reprinting junk from the AP or Reuters. And even an atheist such as myself can tolerate the daily religious article they print. At least their religious slant isn't completely focused on treating any and all conflict in the Middle East as being the beginning of Armageddon.
If more Christians were to read the Monitor, rather than consuming the bullshit from FOX or CNN, America would likely be a far better place. The majority of Americans would have a far more realistic idea of the world around them, and might even extend that knowledge when voting.
Wow. The /. editors are finally getting it. They've posted the first Ask Slashdot question that really matters! A few of us might even learn where to go to find real "news for nerds." Thanks!
I'd recommend a subscription to the weekly periodical _Science News_. It contains short yet detailed articles "covering the most important research in all fields of science". Organized for the reader who actually cares about the science (as opposed to the sound bite), it has many "small details" that it gets right, like having an up-to-date and searchable online edition and ,*gasp* always citing the source paper(s)! It's very nice to read a captivating article summarizing a recent discovery and then be able to grab a more detailed technical paper, should one fancy. http://www.sciencenews.org/
Here is one example of them saving us from the evolution devil
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
If you want analysis, junkscience.com is a good one to have in the mix.
I like Seed and Scienceblogs myself.
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Slashdot gets 73.5% of its science and tech news from there so it has to be good. Ronald Piquepaille's Technology Trends.
Can't really say without knowing exactly what level of publication you're looking for:
W ) and its equivalents in the rest of the Sciences.
- A couple of steps above newspapers you have New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/) and Scientific American (http://www.sciam.com/).
- At a higher level of specialisation and greater depth, you have the institute publications; e.g. Physics World (http://physicsweb.org/subscribe/index.cfm?mag=PH
- At an even higher level you have the Journals - e.g. Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/magazine.dtl) and Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html) which publish individual Scientific papers, but also have summaries, analysis etc.
- At ever high that you get journals with increasingly greater specialisation, such as The Journal of Investigative Dermatology (http://www.nature.com/jid/index.html) (And if you think that's bad, try Nature Clinical Practice Urology...).
What's purple and commutes? An Abelian grape.
If you want preprints of papers, go to the NLANL archives at www.arxiv.org....
'He who has to break a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.' -- Gandalf to Saruman
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+5, Insightful?
Funny, Assholes! FUNNY!!!!
With the quality of the articles at Biology News
It's always high quality, but the discussion could use a little *ahem* beefing up.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this site in any way, shape, or form. I just like the articles, and am interested in biology.
Look out honey cause I'm usin' technology
Ain't got time to make no apologies
http://www.physorg.com/ I love this site, even though it has way more news than I can handle.
For years I've subscribed to 'Science News', a slim weekly publication with wonderfully concise articles covering most if not all branches of science. They've been publishing since 1921 and are pretty highly regarded in the industry. It's written for the scientist who wants to keep up on what's going on outside their specialty, or anyone educated enough to not need the lowest-common-denominator language required by the mass media outlets. They have a website at http://www.sciencenews.org/ but I find the paper version worthwhile to have in my car so I can skim a few paragraphs at stoplights, or while otherwise stuck in traffic...
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Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check
http://www.sciencedaily.com/ The articles are based on press releases, but they reference the original papers if you want to read more.
http://www.seedmagazine.com/
You are bang in your last sentence: the Tuesday "Science Times" in the New York Times is consistently the best topical science journalism I know of. Today's issue has a great story on the possible proof of Poincare's conjecture - some hard core topology with your morning coffee. The topics are not always the broadest: far too much string theory and health news for my taste, but good writing and not dumbed down.
The actual story of the CSM is quite interesting--the creator believed that God wanted her to make an unbiased newspaper. I wish more commands from God were like that instead of "Invade Iraq!" and "Blow up the WTC!"
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
So terribly self-righteous and smug. How does it feel to have it pointed out to you that you're part of the problem?
for engineering try google scholar
scholar.google.com
I can't help but notice you got modded troll incorrectly.
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
Yeah, because the invasion of Iraq was a religiously motivated decision.... you're a fucking idiot.
Bush has specifically told the media that God told him to invade iraq. You're the fucking idiot here.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
The rest is here: http://scienceweek.com/2006/sw060811.htm
Unfortunately, they've cut back to 4 summaries per week. Also, the website design would have been ugly in 1994 -- all bold Times. (why?) But ignore that; nobody matches its content.
Indeed. I'd been initially very skeptical of any publication with the name "Christian Science Monitor".. until I read a few of their pieces. They're well-written, and actually very well respected, with good reason. Check the Wikipedia Article, they have almost no religious affiliation, great reporting (seven time Pulitzer winner), and stick their neck out for reporters on the line.
Also, off-topic a little, but if you live in or plan on visiting Boston anytime.. check out the Mapparium, which is located in a library belonging to the CSM. I wasn't too impressed by the thought of seeing what's essentially a really large globe until I actually got to go inside.. the acoustics alone are enough to take your breath away -- you can hear the faintest whisper along the inner diameter (a long way). Pictures don't do it the faintest justice, but here's one.
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Nature was a great journal once, but they've gone way downhill. The biology articles are still excellent (or at least seem to be; I can't judge), but they've published some terrible computer science articles.
If you want the 'real deal' for free, then you should definitely comb through the Arxiv , which are real articles written by real researchers, usually the same article that gets sent to a specific subscription-only journal later. If you want real stuff, you should have no problem weeding out any crap from real scientists. Ie, find what university or facility the scientist works in to find out if they're legit, look at references and those references, etc. There's quite alot of stuff there.
For science news from Australia check out:
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/
The site deliberately avoids posting/linking to anything that is mostly marketing spin and focuses on stories that have real science in it.
The AIP's Physics News Update is a pretty fascinating look at the cutting edge, though it's a weekly.
There is a weak correlation between a man's motives and what he says they motives are. The constant of correlation is inversely proportional to the political power of that individual.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
http://www.google.com/search?q=virtual+journal
If you don't have access to these journals, you can only read the abstracts, though.
molmod.com - computing tips from a molecular modeling
Many of the commenters seem to know what they are talking about as well. (Just like another website we could mention.)
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Didn't you mean Digg?
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So you want all the facts, without having to read them?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
One of the best tips in this discusssion. At least, I had never heard of 'virtual journals'.
http://www.scitechdaily.com/
This site links to a huge cornucopia of science articles. Check it out.
There is a similar site for arts: Arts & Letters Daily at http://www.aldaily.com/
There is so far as I know no institution in the US that offers a degree in literary criticism; there are degrees in English, English Literature, Comparative Literature, French (or any $LANGUAGE) Language and Literature, and occasionally at the wackier schools "Literary Studies" or Literary Theory, but not "literary criticism" - indeed, literary criticsm in its traditional sense has been largely neglected over the past generation. The first page of a Google search for "degree in literary criticism" reveals a university in Italy offerring a degree in philology and literary criticism and a number of institutions that offer courses in literary criticism, but not degrees. So, for the most part, your use of that term reveals that your attitude reflects your ignorance.
Moreover, most "science journalists" have undergraduate degrees in the sciences or in journalism, not literary studies. Yes, their scientific literacy is often grotesquely inadequate, but that is the fault of their science teachers, not their "literary criticism" teachers. And I am here to tell you that their general literacy and literary skills aren't much better - a very good literary critic usually wouldn't make the same kinds of fundamental errors in transmission to which the average science journalist seems prone, and would not have so atrocious a writing style as they so often have.
Perhaps your teachers have inculcated the degree of "Two Cultures" chauvinism you're displaying so crudely in this "Ask Slashdot" posting, or perhaps you've picked it up from your classmates. I'd suggest, though, that you keep your own counsel about "literary criticism" - it is in its own way, when utilized by a skilled practitioner (and most of those with degrees in English do not qualify as such), a very useful and methodologically rigorous practice. Dismiss popularization all you want, but keep the disciplinary prejudice out of it.
That said, you can't go wrong subscribing to Science and Nature (though I have to admit that I am getting discouraged with Nature's editorial stance lately regarding peer review and editorial oversight) and especially by keeping an eye on ArXiv.org.
What, no love for PhysOrg? OK, someone did mention it, but it bears repeating. A nice all-in-one stop for actual science news, from across the spectrum.
New Scientist.com Latest News is a great page, the site's okay too... but too many subscription only articles these days.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Just to add another site to the many good ones already listed:
http://focus.aps.org/
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I first heard of Science News in a Slashdot article a while ago, and have been nothing but pleased with it since.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I've not read all the previous comments but, in case it was not mentioned, here's the link to http://www.sciencedaily.com/
which I consult occasionally to find good reading material on science.
There is a companion site, Arts & Letters Daily, at http://aldaily.com/ which cover the world of ideas, humanities and literature which is also very nourishing, for those who sometimes come up for air from the deeps of tech.
Enjoy.
Slashdot is well known for posting article summaries incorporating the wow factor, linked to articles from popular mass media news sources which are written at a fourth grade reading level. What makes you think people here have a clue?
I skimmed the posts and didn't see anyone posting http://www.trnmag.com/. Just take a look at the front page and a few of the previous issues and you'll know if it's for you or not. I love this site.
I dont' get much in print besides that and Parabola.
http://alphagalileo.org/ - a good source of science news. It is free and mostly based on press-releases from research organisations around Europe as far as Russia. The only inconviniance is that you neen registeration to see news.