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Live Science
Who runs Live Science, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest science news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ScienceAlert
Measured from Live Science’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Live Science01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Live Science
Live Science livescience.com
Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists.
Wikidata: science news website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Live Science tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
9 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Sourcepoint
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Live Science
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Live Science, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs
The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
Very close - 02
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news
Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.
Very close - 03
Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology
Daily science news on research developments, technological breakthroughs and the latest scientific innovations
Very close - 04
Science News | The latest news from all areas of science
Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. Independent, accurate nonprofit news since 1921.
Very close - 05
Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy News
Get the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. Space.com celebrates humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier.
Very close - 06
Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
Very close - 07
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Very close - 08
Universe Today - Space and Astronomy News
Your daily source for space and astronomy news. Expert coverage of NASA missions, rocket launches, space exploration, exoplanets, and the latest discoveries in astrophysics.
Very close - 09
Popular Science | Science and Technology Stories Since 1872
Awe-inspiring science reporting, technology news, and DIY projects. Skunks to space robots, primates to climates. That's Popular Science, for over 150 years strong.
Very close - 10
EurekAlert! Science News Releases
EurekAlert! is an online science news service featuring health, medicine, science and technology news from leading research institutions and universities. Sponsored by AAAS, the science society.
Very close - 11
Alpha Galileo | alphagalileo.org
research news service
Very close - 12
science magazine
Very close - 13
American magazine
Very close - 14
Medical News | Medical Articles
Medical News and articles you can trust from around the world. All content is written and reviewed by qualified health, medical and scientific experts.
Very close - 15
Medical Xpress: Health & Medical Research News
Medical Xpress delivers daily medical research news and health breakthroughs across neuroscience, cardiology, oncology, genetics, and more — trusted by millions of readers worldwide.
Very close - 16
Nature
First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.
Very close - 17
New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
Very close - 18
National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
Very close - 19
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 20
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Live Science’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Live Science uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Live Science adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Live Science’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-border-spacing-x:
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630cf41cb803be-HAM
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lon4279-LON, cache-ber1080035-BER
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms60632271
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1768.awsdns-29.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: CC462E6DF91492086145CA5EBDCB615E
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: cT0VCuWQCTCmUeE43of8bJhsqQBzcEpdq18TOMdUguk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on livescience.com 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- GlobalSign 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on livescience.com 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on livescience.com 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on livescience.com 5/20
- PHP · not on livescience.com 5/20
- OneTrust · not on livescience.com 5/20
- Adobe · not on livescience.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on livescience.com 5/20
- Google Fonts 4/20