Science Daily media bias and reliability
AllSides and Ad Fontes Media place Science Daily in the centre. We have seen it on 16 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Science Daily biased?
AllSides and Ad Fontes Media place Science Daily in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Science Daily left or right?
AllSides and Ad Fontes Media place Science Daily in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Science Daily reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Science Daily are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Science Daily has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Science Daily’s own report linked underneath.
Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have detected evidence of a rare beauty particle decay into two muons. The LHCb experiment's finding, with a statistical significance of 3.2 sigma, is a step towards confirming a process predicted to occur once in ten billion decays, a search that has been ongoing for over 40 years.
Science Daily reported it asLarge Hadron Collider reveals evidence of Big Bang matter in surprisingly small collisions (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
Eating late at night is associated with a 20-30% increased risk of liver disease, including fatty liver and cirrhosis, according to a US study of around 200,000 people. Researchers suggest timing of meals is key to liver health.
Science Daily reported it asEating late at night linked to up to 30% higher risk of liver disease (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
A new dinosaur species, Invictibellatrix amberina, has been identified from a fossil found on the Isle of Wight. The long-clawed predator, which lived 120 million years ago, is the first evidence of megaraptorans in Europe and may have viewed humans as prey.
Science Daily reported it asA forgotten fossil reveals a fearsome dinosaur with giant claws (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
NASA's Perseverance rover has set a new record for the farthest distance driven on the surface of another planet, covering 45.22 kilometers (28.1 miles) on Mars. The mission has been extended until the end of 2028.
Science Daily reported it asNASA's Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
Two independent teams have created the first functional nuclear clocks, which track changes within an atom's nucleus. These clocks, using thorium-229, are significantly more accurate than current atomic clocks and could lead to advances in navigation, mining, and physics research.
Science Daily reported it asScientists in Vienna and Beijing create world's first nuclear clocks (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
Research from Oxford University suggests animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than fossil evidence currently shows. The study re-examined microfossil deposits and used molecular clock analysis to propose an earlier origin for animal life.
Science Daily reported it asAnimals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than we thought (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
Researchers have demonstrated that certain microorganisms can survive in simulated conditions of Enceladus's subsurface ocean. The study, published in 'Science Advances', recreated the moon's ocean floor chemistry in a lab, using archaea that consume hydrogen and produce methane, suggesting Enceladus's geochemistry may be more favourable for life than previously thought.
Science Daily reported it asThe ice blasting from Saturn's moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
Scientists have identified a new species of penguin, the first such discovery in over a century. The species, found on the Kerguelen Islands, was identified through genetic analysis which showed it to be distinct from other gentoo penguins.
Science Daily reported it asScientists discover first new penguin species in more than 100 years (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
Stanford University scientists have found that the human brain develops from two distinct progenitor cell populations, suggesting an evolutionary merging of two ancient nervous systems. This discovery could aid research into neurological diseases.
Science Daily reported it asStanford scientists discover the human brain may actually be two separate organs (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
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.
Science Daily reported it asAstronomers just found the youngest known planet ever (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
A study examining UK medical records found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, was associated with a nearly 40% reduction in asthma attacks and a 20% decrease in COPD flare-ups. Scientists suggest anti-inflammatory properties may be responsible, but caution that further trials are needed.
Science Daily reported it asOzempic and Wegovy linked to nearly 40% fewer asthma attacks (opens Science Daily 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.
Science Daily reported it as4,000-year-old teeth reveal the earliest human high — Hidden in plaque (opens Science Daily 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.
Science Daily reported it asScientists keep a human alive with a genetically engineered pig liver (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The observatory is designed to study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets, collecting vast amounts of data to deepen our understanding of the universe.
Science Daily reported it asNASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
A major review of 80 randomized controlled trials found that nicotine e-cigarettes were more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for helping people quit smoking. The review involved nearly 30,000 participants and found no evidence of increased serious harm from using e-cigarettes to quit.
Science Daily reported it asScientists say the evidence is clear: E-cigarettes beat patches and gum in helping smokers quit (opens Science Daily in a new tab)
A University of Vienna study used brain scans of twelve dogs to show that happy human faces activate the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus, while anger, fear and sadness produce distinct neural patterns. The findings, published in iScience, suggest dogs can differentiate between specific emotions.
Science Daily reported it asDogs can tell fear from sadness — and scientists saw it in their brains (opens Science Daily 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
Who owns it
- ScienceDaily, LLCunknowndirect owner
- Daniel Hoganunknownparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Encinitas, San Diego County, California, United States
- Official site
- sciencedaily.com
- Seen publishing on
- sciencedaily.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 16
- Reports listed
- 16
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
16 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Science Daily is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 16 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Science Daily’s on 3 of them. Overall it filed a median of 2 days after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 4 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 3 November 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Science Daily, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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