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How the media write about science and space · over the last 6 days

For every domain that writes about science and space, a language model rates the tone of its articles as positive, neutral or negative. That gives a tone index from 0 to 100, where 50 is balanced. At the top are the domains that frame the news most positively, at the bottom the most negatively.

#DomainTone index
1nasa.govArticles 24 · Pos / Neg 33% / 0%100Strongly positive
2popsci.comArticles 26 · Pos / Neg 46% / 4%92Strongly positive
3sciencedaily.comArticles 26 · Pos / Neg 73% / 8%91Strongly positive
4naked-science.ruArticles 29 · Pos / Neg 45% / 7%87Strongly positive
5phys.orgArticles 254 · Pos / Neg 63% / 11%85Strongly positive
6nature.comArticles 172 · Pos / Neg 23% / 5%81Strongly positive
7sciencealert.comArticles 33 · Pos / Neg 39% / 9%81Strongly positive
8space.comArticles 38 · Pos / Neg 37% / 11%78Strongly positive
9earth.comArticles 87 · Pos / Neg 46% / 14%77Strongly positive
10scientificamerican.comArticles 26 · Pos / Neg 31% / 31%50Neutral

Showing domains with ≥24 rated articles. 10 of 46 ranked. How it is calculated →

This is the tone of the articles as a model reads them, not a rating of a domain's quality, reliability or bias. A high index often only means a domain writes more about rallies and launches, a low one more about sell-offs, hacks and lawsuits.