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Also known as sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.

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Vinony's link graph records 666 inbound references to Science Daily, and connects out to Wayback Machine, press release and sic.

It sits within the topics American science websites, Internet properties established in 1995 and News aggregators.

Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.

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Website.name
Science Daily
Website.logo
Science Daily logo.png
Website.type
Press release distribution
Website.language
English
Website.owner
ScienceDaily, LLC
Website.current_status
Active

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Official website
www.sciencedaily.com
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Alexa rank
4528
inception
1995-01-01
social media followers
309383
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ScienceDaily is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.

== History == 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. 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, Quantcast ranked it at 614 with 2.6 million U.S. visitors.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Science Daily” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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