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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.
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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.
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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)
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If you're after biology news, try http://biologynews.net/
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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!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.
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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.
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!
Here is one example of them saving us from the evolution devil
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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.
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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.
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 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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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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