SciScoop is a community science blog. Any visitor can post science news stories to the site. Members then vote on whether submissions should be posted to the site's front page or the story archive. Once posted, visitors to the site can comment on individual stories or discuss the site in general in the Soapbox section (now renamed Site News). SciScoop also has a science newsfeed which is used by the Google search engine in its news pages. The Sci...
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