{{short description|Science news website}} {{Notability|Web|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox website | name = Phys.org | logo = Phys.org new logo.png | country = United Kingdom | language = English | foundation = {{Start date and age|2004}} | website = {{Official URL}} }} '''Phys.org''' is an online science, research and technology news aggregator which re-publishes press releases and stories from news agencies (a business model known as churnalism).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shipman|first1=W. Matthew|title=Handbook for Science Public Information Officers|date=2015|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226179469|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RZEpCwAAQBAJ|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Timmer|first1=John|title=PR or science journalism? It's getting harder to tell|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/09/universities-band-together-to-aggregate-research-news/|work=Ars Technica|date=23 September 2009|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/01/11/adapting-to-the-new-ecosystem-of-science-journalism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728101133/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/01/11/adapting-to-the-new-ecosystem-of-science-journalism/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 28, 2018|title=Adapting to the new ecosystem of science journalism|last1=Yong|first1=Ed|date=11 January 2010|work=National Geographic Phenomena}}</ref> In 2012, '''PhysOrg.com''' was changed to Phys.org.<ref>{{cite web |title=PhysOrg.com is now PHYS.ORG |url=http://phys.org/ |website=Phys.org |access-date=3 March 2025 |archive-date=2 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302002259/http://phys.org/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> {{as of|2014}}, Phys.org was posting an average of 98 items per day.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ranger |first1=Mathieu |last2=Bultitude |first2=Karen |title='The kind of mildly curious sort of science interested person like me': Science bloggers' practices relating to audience recruitment |journal=Public Understanding of Science |date=October 30, 2014 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=361–378 |doi=10.1177/0963662514555054 |pmid=25361791 |pmc=4819792 }}</ref> It is part of the Science X network of websites, headquartered on the Isle of Man.
== See also == * EurekAlert! * Science Daily
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==External links== * {{official website}}
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