Science Daily
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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!.
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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.