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Science News
Who runs Science News, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest science news magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Scientific American
Measured from Science News’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Science News01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Science News
Science News sciencenews.org
Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. Independent, accurate nonprofit news since 1921.
Wikidata: American magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Science News 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
8 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Science News
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Science News, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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 - 02
science magazine
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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.
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Live Science | Latest science news and articles for those with curious minds
Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists.
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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.
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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.
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Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology
Daily science news on research developments, technological breakthroughs and the latest scientific innovations
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American magazine
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National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
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New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
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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.
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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.
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Alpha Galileo | alphagalileo.org
research news service
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Very close - 19
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.
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Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
American progressive magazine
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Science News’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Science News 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 Science News 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 · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 53 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Science News’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
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google AdSense page source: pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a8cc3a1d6311-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ryleigh.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 2B11F429CEDE4A41FD3B5A377482ABBA
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: NXCoG37edJhcKkUouk5eKriFof-LhSUf4RS1hlkpcTc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on sciencenews.org 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on sciencenews.org 10/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on sciencenews.org 10/20
- GlobalSign · not on sciencenews.org 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on sciencenews.org 7/20
- Atlassian · not on sciencenews.org 6/20
- Fastly · not on sciencenews.org 6/20
- Adobe · not on sciencenews.org 5/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on sciencenews.org 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on sciencenews.org 5/20
- OneTrust · not on sciencenews.org 5/20