''SciTechDaily'' is a

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website, containing sections on

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biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

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and

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. It was founded in 1998 by Vicki Hyde, originally as ''Sci Tech Daily Review'', a companion site to '' Arts & Letters Daily''. It became popular as a news aggregation site for science and technology content, featuring curated links with brief summaries to third-party sites such as ''NOVA: Science in the news''; magazines such as ''The Discovery Channel'', ''

Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it, with more than 150 Nobel Pri ...

'', ''

Popular Science Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is more broad ranging. It may be written ...

''; niche sites such as ''The Apothecary's Drawer,'' ''Brain.com'', and the ''Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes''; as well as international newspapers''.'' Since 2011, ''SciTechDaily'' has changed its format to publish articles directly on its site, rather than providing a daily digest of links. According to the publisher, its content is republished on sites such as '' Yahoo!News'', ''

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'', and ''Futurism'', and many others.

History

''SciTech Daily Review'' was launched in 1998, as a companion site to ''Arts & Letters Daily'', with the encouragement of

Denis Dutton Denis Laurence Dutton (9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010) was an American philosopher of art, web entrepreneur, and media activist. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was also a ...

. Managing editor Hyde, a member of

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, worked on the website with a business partner out of

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, during her spare time as a mother. In December 1998, an article in ''

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'' characterized ''Sci Tech Daily Review'' and ''Arts & Letters Daily'' as "portholes" rather than portals, because they offered "narrower windows" to view an "expansive sea of on-line information".In 2002, ''SciTech Daily Review'' was selected as one of five final nominations in the Science Category for a

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. In April 2011, ''SciTech Daily'' recovered from a six-week hiatus, following the

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in February. Later that year, the website transitioned to new management and overhauled its format and design to publish articles directly rather than providing links and digests. As of May 2022, it is estimated that ''SciTech'' has 8.7 million monthly readers, and is a top 30 science and education website by traffic worldwide.

Reviews

In November 1999, a review of popular science websites in the ''

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'' rated ''Sci Tech Daily'' as "the best science news site" at the time, with the caveat that it had a "perfunctory design"; the article described it as a links page that "culled the best science features, news stories and book reviews from dozens of science magazines, journals and newspapers." A June 2000 review in ''

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'' described www.scitechdaily.com as "a potpourri of links and information" with "news from around the world, a comprehensive listing of technology publications, plus a nice choice of a variety of 'techie' sites". A 2002 review in ''Industrial Engineer: IE'' found the content "riveting", covering topics such as the half-life of a teaspoon; why emotions and rational thought are similar; and why drug companies won't fund certain studies. An in-depth review which appeared in ''Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries'' in 2015 noted that "SciTechDaily appears to edit sources more heavily for readability and publishes fewer articles overall and so may be preferred by those who find ScienceDaily overwhelming".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:SciTech Science and technology magazines Magazines established in 1998 New Zealand websites American websites