Live Science

Live Science is a science news website. The publication features stories on a wide range of topics, including space, animals, health, archaeology, human behavior, and planet Earth. It also includes a reference section with links to other websites. Its stated mission is to inform and entertain readers about science and the world around them.^[1]

Live Science

Logo of the website since 2016
Screenshot of the website in December 2024
Type of site	News website
Available in	English
Owner	Purch (Future)
Editor	Alexander McNamara
URL	www.livescience.com
Commercial	Yes
Launched	2004; 21 years ago (2004)

History

Live Science was originally made in 2004. It was acquired by ediaNetwork, later called Purch, in 2009.^[2] Purch consumer brands (including Live Science) were acquired by Future in 2018. ^[3]

Reception

In 2011, the Columbia Journalism Review's "News Startups Guide" called Live Science "a purebred Web animal, primarily featuring one-off stories and photo galleries produced at high speed by its mostly young staffers, almost all of whom have journalism degrees," noting that, "If you are looking for resource-intensive expositions of global warming, for instance, or thickly narrated journeys into the research process, LiveScience [sic] will disappoint. The site carries the big science news of the day, but its strength lies in the quirky diversity of its other content–oddball studies overlooked by major news organizations."^[4]

Awards

2007: Winner, Award for Specialty Site Journalism (large or anization) from the Online Journalism Awards.^[5]

2008, 2010: Honoree, ebsites and Mobile Sites, Science from the Webby Awards.^[6][7]

2021: Listed as one of the top 10 science websites from the website "Make Use Of".^[8]

Live Science was ranked in RealClearScience's "Top 10 Websites for Science" from 2016 to 2023.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}