The Best Articles in Science

The most useful articles and videos in Science from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.

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Top 5 Science Articles

At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Science by Refind users in 2023 so far.

  1. How to Make the Universe Think for Us
  2. What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
  3. How language and social status change the developing brain
  4. Is there life after death?
  5. On death and dying: towards a new paradigm

Videos

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Short Articles

Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Science—all under 10 minutes.

Long Articles

These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Science.

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Thought Leaders

We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Science, including:

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Richard Dawkins

UK biologist & writer. Richard Dawkins Foundation donor: http://richarddawkins.net/donate. My Substack: http://richarddawkins.substack.com

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Ben Goldacre

Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science, more. I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net

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National Geographic

Since its inception nearly 130 years ago, the core purpose of National Geographic has been to further the knowledge and awareness of our world.

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WIRED

Where tomorrow is realized || Sign up for our newsletters: http://WIRED.com/newsletter

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NASA

There's space for everybody. ✨ Verification: http://nasa.gov/socialmedia

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It’s a mix of human and algorithmic curation, following a number of steps:

  1. We monitor 10k+ sources and 1k+ thought leaders on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
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  5. Our algorithm uses these internal signals to refine the selection.
  6. In addition, we have expert curators who manually curate niche topics.

The result: lists of the best and most useful articles on hundreds of topics.

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