About & sources
The Science Brief is an automated brief on personal finance. A scheduled job reads the feeds listed below, merges any stories that several outlets are covering into a single entry, and writes a short summary in our own words. We never reproduce the publisher's article text — every entry links straight to the original reporting, and headlines remain the property of the publisher.
Editorial rules
- Short original summaries only (target 45 words), plus a one-line "why it matters".
- Automatic check that no twelve-word span is shared with the source text.
- New stories can be held for review before they appear.
- Corrections, removals and takedown requests: see the contact below — we act on them promptly.
Advertising
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How this site works
Stories are written from reporting published by journals, research institutions and science desks, and are checked against fixed rules before they appear.
- One result is one result. We write "the researchers found", "suggests", "may" - never that something is proved or settled.
- We state what kind of evidence it is: a peer-reviewed study, a preprint that has not been reviewed, a conference abstract, a model or simulation, laboratory work, or animal work. Animal and simulation results are never presented as human or real-world findings.
- We state the scale. A result in twelve mice or one patient is reported as such.
- The limits the authors state are carried in the story, not dropped for a cleaner line.
- A press release's "could one day" is reported as the researchers' hope, not as an outcome.
- We filter out the hype register - breakthroughs, game-changers, holy grails - and the press-release rewrites and galleries that fill the popular-science tier.
Feeds we read
| Source | Section | Last successful read |
|---|---|---|
| Ars Technica Science | News | 2026-10-11 00:41:04 |
| Live Science | News | 2026-10-11 00:41:06 |
| NASA JPL | Space | 2026-10-06 08:41:01 |
| Nature | Research | 2026-10-11 00:41:00 |
| New Scientist | News | 2026-10-11 00:41:01 |
| Phys.org | Research | 2026-10-11 00:41:07 |
| Quanta Magazine | Research | 2026-10-11 00:41:02 |
| Retraction Watch | Integrity | 2026-10-11 00:41:09 |
| Science Magazine | Research | 2026-10-11 00:41:02 |
| The Conversation | Analysis | 2026-10-11 00:41:07 |
| Undark | Analysis | 2026-10-11 00:41:09 |
Feeds whose terms restrict commercial reuse are not read and are not listed here.
Contact
We do not publish an email address (it is a magnet for spam). Use the contact form for corrections, removals, takedown requests or anything else — it reaches us directly and we reply to the address you give.