Live Science

Live Science is a science news website. It publishes stories in a wide variety of topics such as Space, Animals, Health, Archaeology, Human behavior and Planet Earth. It also has a Reference section with links to other sites. Its declared mission is to inform and entertain its readers about science and the world.^[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Live Science was originally made in 2004.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" and noted that "If you are looking for resource-intensive expositions of global warming, for instance, or thickly narrated journeys into the research process, LiveScience 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]}

References

1. "LiveScience – About Us". LiveScience. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
2. Ali, Rafat (26 October 2014). "Space.com & Related Sites Acquired by TopTenReviews". GigaOm. Knowingly, Inc. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
3. "Purch sells B2C imprints to global specialist media publisher Future in $132m deal". The Drum. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
4. Norman, Brett. "LiveScience". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
5. "2007 Specialty Site Journalism Winner". Online Journalism Awards. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
6. "Websites and Mobile Sites Science 2008". The Webby Awards. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
7. "Websites and Mobile Sites Science 2010". The Webby Awards. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
8. "The Top 10 Websites to Get Your Daily Dose of Science". Make Use Of. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
9. Ross Pomeroy (13 November 2016). "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2016". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
10. Ross Pomeroy (4 December 2017). "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2017". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
11. Ross Pomeroy (10 December 2018). "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2018". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
12. Ross Pomeroy (12 December 2019). "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2019". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
13. Ross Pomeroy (17 December 2019). "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2020". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
14. Ross Pomeroy (13 December 2021). "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2021". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
15. Ross Pomeroy (13 December 2022). "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2022". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
16. Ross Pomeroy (18 December 2023). "The Top Websites for Science in 2023". realclearscience.com. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Live Science on Facebook
• Live Science's channel on YouTube
• Live Science on Twitter