What we measured
We loaded phys.org in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 10
- Design
- 7
- Reach
- 8
- Editorial
- 5
- Signal-to-noise
- 5
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 10
- Independence
- 7
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Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
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Latest from Phys.org
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- Sediments off Brazil's northeast coast reveal sudden changes in heat transport in the Atlantic
- Quality vs. quantity: Why 'super-shedders' may not be the superspreaders of disease outbreaks
- Long-lost convent rediscovered under a soccer field in Denmark
- US could exhaust domestic phosphorus within 40 years, but waste offers reserves
- Butterfly-inspired technology could change the way we monitor air
- Cells use a little-known molecule to protect themselves from iron overload
- Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the moon to eavesdrop on whispers from the early universe
- Tiny DNA rotor lets microscopes track gene transcription one base pair at a time
- Why climate-driven droughts and floods rarely become international news
- Human blood may have helped preserve ancient Chinese rock art for 2,000 years
- Arctic balloon samples trace marine sugars from the ocean to cloud-forming heights
- Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after
- New AI model detects hidden signs of solar eruptions hours before they emerge
- Quantum Latin squares cannot solve Euler's 36 officers problem without entanglement
- Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elites
Where it sits in Science & Environment
- #25 Nature News76.5
- #26 pv magazine76.5
- #27 Phys.org76
- #28 Audubon Magazine75.5
- #29 British Trust for Ornithology74.5