This site publishes short write-ups of research news: a space mission, a study, a survey, a measurement. One page each, in plain English, with what was actually found kept separate from what it might eventually mean.
The domain name is about recruiting and the archive is not. Rather than pretend otherwise: what is here is science, in five sections, and that is what the site is run as.
The five sections
- Space — missions, telescopes, planets and the objects past them.
- Life sciences — animal behaviour, evolution and the laboratory.
- Health — studies on disease, treatment and the mind.
- Earth & environment — climate, oceans, farming, extinction.
- Technology & physics — instruments, computing and fundamental physics.
How the articles are written
- The finding first, the implication second. A drug that doubles the lifespan of a nematode has done exactly that and nothing more. We try not to let the second paragraph quietly promote it into a human result.
- Everything carries a date. These reports are from 2022. Some of them have been overtaken since; a result that stood then may not stand now. The date is at the top of every article for that reason, and if you know something here has been superseded we would like to hear it.
- Numbers stay checkable. Where a distance or a figure appears, it is one you can look up. That is also why the light-time calculator shows its arithmetic instead of just printing an answer.
- Nothing here is advice. The health section reports studies. It does not tell anyone what to do about their own body — that conversation belongs with a doctor who can see the person.
Who writes it
Articles are published by the editorial team rather than under individual bylines. Nobody here is a working scientist, and none of these write-ups is peer review — they are summaries for general readers, written from the published reports.
Corrections
Write to [email protected] or use the contact page. Corrections are the most useful mail we get.