The top websites for science during 2023
[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire.]
By Ross Pomeroy
Real Clear Wire
At its best, science communication can enlighten and entertain. At its worst, it can bore and misinform. Six days a week, RealClearScience endeavors to share science stories, news, and opinion from the first category. Here you'll find articles from trusted sources penned by top notch writers who value evidence over ideology.
As we round up and deliver this content throughout the year, we take note of the websites that rise above the crowd, outshining the competition through deep reporting, regular updates, and devotion to truth. Here are the top ten of 2023:
Honorable Mentions:
Wired and Wired UK have deftly covered topics that directly affect modern society, such as climate change, commercial spaceflight, and artificial intelligence.
Stat is as dependable as ever on matters of health and medicine.
Enjoy reading about space? Then Universe Today is the site for you, touching on topics ranging from astrobiology to astrophysics.
The Top Ten:
10. Quanta Magazine. If you're a regular reader of RCS, you're well acquainted with Quanta. The outlet's writers delve into complex science in a way few others do.
9. Science Alert. Science Alert is an independent science news outlet that provides accessible, evidence-based coverage of pretty much any matter that sparks curiosity. We're consistently impressed by all of the fascinating research Science Alert discovers that other sources miss.
8. Big Think. Big Think features stories about big ideas, big questions, and big thinkers. Many of these topics can directly improve your life as well as society as a whole. (Disclosure: RCS Editor Ross Pomeroy regularly contributes to Big Think.)
7. The Conversation. At The Conversation, academics and experts write about the latest research, including their own. Readers thus receive perspective and details on complicated scientific topics they can't find anywhere else.
6. Science Magazine. Science features stories vitally important to scientists and covers key breakthroughs with rigor and detail.
5. BBC. The BBC hosts various websites that provide curious readers with the knowledge they crave. BBC Science Focus shares articles of popular interest. BBC News provides daily coverage to keep you up-to-date. BBC Future shines a light on our ever-changing world.
4. Live Science. Live Science and its sister site Space.com have been dependable purveyors of science news for almost two decades now.
3. NewScientist. NewScientist is fount of science content from almost every discipline. (Sadly it's almost entirely behind a paywall.)
2. Nature. A lot of scientific research and events have world changing ramifications, and thus require journalists to cover them with the utmost care. The reporters at Nature perform this vital role admirably.
1. Ars Technica. This is Ars Technica's third year in a row leading RCS' year end countdown. As long as Ars' dedicated, experienced team of writers stays put, it's hard to see any other outlet dislodging the website from its lofty and deserved pedestal.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO WND READERS: America – long the freest, most prosperous, powerful, altruistic and Christian nation on earth – is on the brink of destruction. Every decent and aware American adult knows this. The evidence is everywhere.
Democrat politicians today overwhelmingly favor late-term abortion up to the very moment of birth – formerly known as "infanticide." They encourage children too young to drive or vote to have their breasts and/or sex organs amputated in pursuit of a "gender transition" that is both delusional and impossible, and which leads to staggering rates of depression and suicide. They have not just allowed, but ENGINEERED, a full-scale foreign invasion of America across her southern border.
Their standard bearer, President Joe Biden – a senile, pathologically dishonest and epically corrupt career political hack – is destroying America's economy, energy sector, military, law enforcement, election integrity, national security, Constitution and overall national wellbeing as rapidly as possible. At the same time, Team Biden demonizes and, increasingly, IMPRISONS critics as "violent extremists," "domestic terrorists," "white supremacists" and "insurrectionists." Indeed, they're currently engaged in an obviously corrupt multi-front legal war against Biden's chief political rival, Donald J. Trump, in an attempt to send the 45th president of the United States to prison for the rest of his life.
None of this constitutes "politics" in any conventional or traditional American sense. Rather, it is all darkly spiritual. The greatest nation on earth is in the throes of a full-blown spiritual war between good and evil.
The big question, then, is WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SAVE AMERICA? Fortunately, real answers and uncommon wisdom are showcased in the December issue of WND's critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, "CAN AMERICA BE SAVED? The world's freest, most Christian nation is on the brink of destruction."
In this very special issue, readers will experience the best and deepest thoughts and strategies on how to restore America to her former goodness and greatness, from some of the nation's most respected analysts – everyone from Tucker Carlson to Dennis Prager to Victor Davis Hanson to Newt Gingrich and many more.
WHISTLEBLOWER is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.
For 25 years, WND has boldly brought you the news that really matters. If you appreciate our Christian journalists and their uniquely truthful reporting and analysis, please help us by becoming a WND Insider!
SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!
The post The top websites for science during 2023 appeared first on WND.