IFLScience media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give IFLScience one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is IFLScience biased?
The rating organisations do not give IFLScience one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is IFLScience left or right?
The rating organisations do not give IFLScience one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is IFLScience reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for IFLScience are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What IFLScience has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with IFLScience’s own report linked underneath.
Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b as the youngest exoplanet discovered to date, with an age of less than one million years. The Jupiter-sized planet, located 450 light-years away, is still within its natal disk of dust and gas, prompting a re-evaluation of planet-formation models.
IFLScience reported it asPlanet Less Than A Million Years Old Finally Breaks 4-Way Tie To Become Youngest Known World (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Researchers have identified a new wild cat species, Leopardus tilcayo, in Bolivia's Yungas forest. The small feline, measuring about 45-46 cm and weighing 1.4 kg, is the first new wild cat species described in more than 100 years.
IFLScience reported it asFirst New Cat Species In Over 100 Years Is A Totally Charming Tiny Tiger From Bolivia (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
The Environmental Protection Agency is set to repeal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants. Administrator Lee Zeldin stated the move could save billions for the industry and boost American energy.
IFLScience reported it asUnder Trump, US Environmental Protection Agency Removes Limits On Air Pollution From Coal And Gas Power Plants (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Scientists estimate Mercury's diameter may have shrunk by up to 14 miles (23 kilometers), a figure 30% greater than earlier projections. The planet's hot iron core cooling and contracting is believed to be the cause, tightening its surface.
IFLScience reported it asMercury Is Shrinking Faster Than Thought, New Analysis Of Its Many Wrinkles Reveals (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Analysis of prehistoric human remains from Indonesia has revealed evidence of habitual drug use dating back approximately 25,000 years. This predates agriculture and suggests humans may have been consuming psychoactive substances much earlier than previously understood.
IFLScience reported it as25,000-Year-Old "Addict" With A Betel Nut Habit Is The Earliest Evidence Yet Of Drug Use In Humans (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
OpenAI has announced that an internal AI model has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems. The company claims approximately 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours. However, mathematicians have expressed skepticism due to the lack of a publicly disclosed proof.
IFLScience reported it asMathematicians Using AI Announced They Were Close To Solving One Of The Holy Grails Of Math – And Then The Drama Started (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
The 36th annual Ig Nobel Prizes awarded ten research teams for studies that are scientifically sound but unusual. This year's ceremony was held in Zurich, marking the first time the event took place outside the United States.
IFLScience reported it asThe Rich More Likely To Snatch Candy From A Baby, A Formal Definition Of Kissing, And Cockroach Milk Win The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for a record 271 days, allowing the individual to avoid dialysis while awaiting a human transplant. The results were published in The Lancet by doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
IFLScience reported it asPig Kidney Transplant Kept Man Alive For A Record Breaking 271 Days While He Waited For A Human Organ (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to use maps that more accurately represent the true relative sizes of countries and continents. The move, driven by African nations, seeks to correct distortions caused by the centuries-old Mercator projection.
IFLScience reported it asThe World Is About To Vote On Whether To Ditch The Global Map As We Know It And Start Showing Countries’ True Size (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Higher levels of the popular sugar substitute xylitol have been associated with a significantly greater risk of heart attack and stroke, according to new research. The analysis examined data from over 17,000 individuals, finding those with xylitol in their blood were at increased risk of major cardiovascular events.
IFLScience reported it asCommon Sweetener Added To Sugar-Free Desserts Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Scientists at the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment in South Dakota have observed a single particle interaction that could be a sign of dark matter. While the event is statistically unlikely to be background noise, researchers stress it does not meet the threshold for a confirmed discovery.
IFLScience reported it asNew Detection In Dark Matter Experiment Has Physicists Excited – Is It An Unexpected And Rare Background Or The First Evidence Of Dark Matter? (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Astronomers have identified a star, S301, orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole at 25,000 kilometres per second, the fastest known in the galaxy. Its tight orbit may enable scientists to measure the black hole’s spin, testing Einstein’s general relativity.
IFLScience reported it asNewly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurement (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Scientists at the Arc Institute in California used an AI model named Evo to design 16 new bacteriophages capable of infecting E. coli. The study, published in Science, excluded human pathogen datasets, ensuring the viruses cannot infect people. Experts warn of biosecurity risks despite potential medical applications.
IFLScience reported it asIn A World First, Scientists Used AI To Generate A Genome And Produced A Functional, Bacteria-Killing Virus (opens IFLScience in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- LabX Media GroupCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- iflscience.com
- Seen publishing on
- iflscience.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
13 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen IFLScience cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of IFLScience: its report arrived a median of 23 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as IFLScience, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where IFLScience publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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