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• ABCNEWS.com Science Index (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/index.html) which is probably my favorite.  The articles are pretty easy to read (though still hard for a fifth grader), and it's mainstream reporting.  The "Mad or Rad" section can be funny and it can be lame.
• Discovery Channel's Discovery News (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/news.html) has good stories that are very readable. I also recommend their Animal Alert (at http://animal.discovery.com/news/news.html) and Ocean Alert (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/blueplanet/alert/alert.html)
• SciTech Daily Review (http://www.scitechdaily.com/) has summaries and links to all the important science news on the Web. It's as if somebody else went through and picked all the good articles on the Web for you. I really recommend it.
• NewScientist (http://www.newscientist.co.uk/), a British science journal, is good because the articles are up-to-date and fun to read.  
• The BBC News Sci/Tech page has good stories, also with an international focus. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/default.stm
• Nature's Science Update (http://www.nature.com/nsu/) has interesting articles which aren't the same as other sources.
• CNN Science and Technology (http://www.cnn.com/TECH/index.html) has good reporting but it isn't quite as easy to find articles as on ABCNews.com.
• EurekAlert! (http://www.eurekalert.org/pubnews.php) gives brief news releases about current science news.  Very up-to-date, but brief, and no way of telling how good the research is.
• Science@NASA (http://science.nasa.gov/) is obviously only about space science news, but if you're interested in space it's a great site.  Just remember that the news articles are written by people who work for NASA, so obviously they will tend to give more of the "good news" and less of the "bad news."
• ScienceNews (http://www.sciencenews.org/), a weekly science newsmagazine, gives the full text of some of its articles on its web site.
• Space.com has a good news section; like Science@NASA it is only about space science.  (http://www.space.com/news/index.html)
• Los Angeles Times Science (http://www.latimes.com/news/science/) has very good articles but they tend to be written for adults.  
• Discover Magazine (http://www.discover.com) has great articles, and at the end of the articles it gives other Internet links for further information.

This page last updated on October 31, 2002