''Science Daily'' is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates

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s and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called

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) about science, similar to Phys.org and

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. The site was founded by married couple Dan and Michele Hogan in 1995; Dan Hogan formerly worked in the public affairs department of Jackson Laboratory writing press releases. The site makes money from selling advertisements. As of 2010, the site said that it had grown "from a two-person operation to a full-fledged news business with worldwide contributors". At the time, it was run out of the Hogans' home, had no reporters, and only reprinted press releases. In 2012,

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ranked it at 614 with 2.6 million U.S. visitors.

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News aggregators Internet properties established in 1995 American science websites {{sci-mag-stub