ZME Science media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places ZME Science in the centre. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is ZME Science biased?
Ad Fontes Media places ZME Science in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is ZME Science left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places ZME Science in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is ZME Science reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for ZME Science are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What ZME Science has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with ZME Science’s own report linked underneath.
For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals directly from an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b, located 63.4 light-years away. The signals, likely from the planet's aurora, suggest a powerful magnetic field, offering new insights into planetary environments beyond our solar system.
ZME Science reported it asAstronomers Detected a Radio Signal Coming Directly From an Exoplanet for the First Time (opens ZME Science 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.
ZME Science reported it asEarliest Human Drug Use Ever Found Shows People in Indonesia Were Getting High on Betel Nut as Far Back as 25,000 Years Ago (opens ZME Science in a new tab)
Drinking very hot beverages, defined as 65C or above, triples the risk of oesophageal cancer compared to warm drinks, according to a large Oxford University study. Consuming six or more hot drinks a day also increases the risk, though the overall likelihood of developing the cancer remains low.
ZME Science reported it asLove Your Tea or Coffee Scalding Hot? A Huge Study Has a Warning (opens ZME Science in a new tab)
A United Nations report published on September 2, 2026, states that global temperatures are likely to exceed the 1.5°C warming threshold within a few years. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) calls for rapid emissions cuts and carbon removal to limit damage.
ZME Science reported it asKeeping Global Warming Below 1.5°C Is No Longer Possible. We Must Now Remove Carbon, United Nations Says (opens ZME Science 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.
ZME Science reported it asPhysicists May Have Just Found the Most Promising Sign of Dark Matter Yet. But It Was Just One Particle (opens ZME Science in a new tab)
Researchers used buried organic cotton underwear as an indicator of soil biological activity. The experiment, involving nearly 1,000 volunteers across Switzerland, found that land use was the most significant factor influencing decomposition rates, with private gardens showing the highest activity.
ZME Science reported it as2,000 Pairs of Underwear Were Turned Into a Giant Soil Experiment and the Results Were Surprisingly Revealing (opens ZME Science in a new tab)
Research indicates the Shingrix vaccine may provide protection against cardiovascular events and dementia. A study found a reduced risk of heart disease and cognitive decline in those vaccinated compared to an older vaccine.
ZME Science reported it asA Common Vaccine May Protect the Heart for Years After the Shot (opens ZME Science 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.
ZME Science reported it asThe Fastest Star in the Milky Way Races Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light (opens ZME Science in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
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.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- ZME GRUP PUBLICITATE SRLIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Romania
- Official site
- zmescience.com
- Seen publishing on
- zmescience.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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
8 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. ZME Science is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of ZME Science: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 23 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as ZME Science, also publishing from Romania, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where ZME Science 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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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.