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Type of site | News website |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Future |
| Editor | Alexander McNamara |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2004; 22 years ago (2004) |
Live Science is ascience news website. The publication features stories on a wide range of topics, including space, animals, health, archaeology, human behavior, and planet Earth. It also includes a reference section with links to other websites. Its stated mission is to inform and entertain readers about science and the world around them.[1]
Live Science was originally made in 2004. It was acquired by TechMediaNetwork, later called Purch, in 2009.[2] Purch consumer brands (including Live Science) were acquired byFuture in 2018.[3]
In 2011, theColumbia Journalism Review's "News Startups Guide" called Live Science "a purebred Web animal, primarily featuring one-off stories and photo galleries produced at high speed by its mostly young staffers, almost all of whom have journalism degrees," noting that, "If you are looking for resource-intensive expositions of global warming, for instance, or thickly narrated journeys into the research process, LiveScience [sic] will disappoint. The site carries the big science news of the day, but its strength lies in the quirky diversity of its other content–oddball studies overlooked by major news organizations."[4]
2007: Winner - Specialty Site Journalism, Large from the Online Journalism Awards.[5]
2008, 2010: Honoree - Websites and Mobile Sites, Science from the Webby Awards.[6][7]
2021: Listed as one of the top 10 science websites from the website "Make Use Of".[8]
Live Science was ranked in RealClearScience's "Top 10 Websites for Science" from 2016 to 2023.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
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