Anyone here a regular reader of phys.org ?

[Locut0s]

A great site for recent developments in science: http://phys.org/

[darkangel218]

1. I didnt know of this website.

It looks interesting, thanks for the link.

[Locut0s]

3. Yeah it's updated like crazy too...

Lots and lots of new stories and developments every day.

[byronius]

2. Excellent link. Thanks.

[Locut0s]

6. Your welcome. Just stay out of the comments section...

The main articles are about real research, new papers published, real science. The comments section is rather full of pseudo science spouting bull shit and the usual trolling. Lots of people in the comments shopping around their own perpetual motion theories, intelligent design bull shit and more. It's trolls den. But yeah the meat of the site is fantastic!

[defacto7]

9. I love the comment section...

That's really entertaining. It's also stacked with university professors, high level mathematicians and they lay waste to anyone with wacko religious proclivities or pseudo science.

You are dead wrong about it being a trolls den. That is where some of the most intelligent comments come from. Yeah there's a lot of bull shit but it doesn't last long before they are torn to shreds. The comment section verifies, vilifies and basically makes the articles have any value at all. The articles themselves are sometimes full of inaccuracies or are written by professional writers who have no idea what they are talking about.

If you spend time on phys.org and just take the articles at face value, you're reading for the warm fuzzes of reading fun science not for the grid iron facts. The less than reasonable commenters are well taken care of by the knowledgeable and there is practically no moderation.

[JEFF9K]

4. Just checked it out and then bookmarked it. Thanks!

[byronius]

5. Actually, let me amend that. Fantastic link. What a great site. It's on the daily list for me.

[mike_c]

7. the constant nagging about ad blocking add-ons is annoying....

Otherwise it's a nice aggregator of science news. I read Science Daily more often.

[defacto7]

8. Yes, for years.

I comment fairly regularly on the site when it concerns cosmology, or astronomy. It tends to have some pretty great articles and has improved it's writer base quite a lot over the last year. It also comes up with some pretty poor articles from time to time but it's much better now days. I read the phys.org site as regularly as I do DU.