JOIN USScienceDaily is one of internet’s most popular links related to science. Ever since its creation in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public all around the world. Now, with more than three million monthly visitors, ScienceDaily generates nearly 15 million page views a month and is steadily increasing with each day.
The free service, sustained by advertising support, provides breaking news about the latest discoveries and research projects in science, health and medicine, the environment, space, technology, and computers, all sourced from the world’s leading universities and research institutions. The information on the site is updated four times a day, and it also offers a free search of its archives, related links, books, encyclopedia articles. So feel free to walk the virtual aisles in search of your favourite science topic.
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The depth of breaking news related to the latest scientific discoveries that ScienceDaily offers access to — absolutely free with no subscription fees whatsoever — is itself enough reason to visit the site at least once. The site includes over 65,000 research articles, 15,000 images, 2,500 encyclopedia entries, 1,500 book reviews and hundreds of educational videos. Updated seven days a week with breaking news and feature articles, the site encompasses discoveries in all fields of the physical, biological, earth and applied sciences. Universities around the world have come to rely on ScienceDaily to share news about their scientists’ findings with a wider audience. Among the headlines and links of evolving stories posted at ScienceDaily, at the time of writing this article, were:
-The Global Map of Human Gene Expression.
-An explanation for the so-called Broken-Heart Syndrome. The heart takes on that particular shape after strong emotional stress.
-How disorder at microscopic level reveals important changes in behaviour of matter.
-Fish introduced into rivers by human intervention over the past 150 years have modified the average body size of fish assemblages in many areas of the world.
-Hooking up or dating: Who benefits? Researchers have explored the reasons that motivate college men and women to hook up or to date, as well as the perceived relative benefits and costs of the two.
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