Catching Up with Science News Headlines

The pace of discovery and development in science, medicine and technology has never been faster. Thousands of research papers, reports, articles and press releases reporting breaking news are launched in print and on science news websites every hour of the day.  

Keeping up with science news is time consuming and can involved looking through many science websites. Even just staying in touch with major developments and being able to track news headlines in your special interest areas can take a large chunk of time.

Take biology news, for example - you could look at a dozen biology news websites before you found one that carried interesting news for you.

Science News Headlines

Science News in leading Science Magazines:

• Nature
• Science this week
• Science Magazine
• Scientific American news 
• CO2 Science News  
• New Scientist Magazine
• Headlines from Focus Magazine  

Popular Science News:

• Popsci.com popular science
• Bright surf science news
• Associated Press science news
• Popular science books - latest
• Explain that Stuff! science news
• Latest from FirstScience.com
• News on fun science
• Amazing science images- new
• USA National Science Foundation

Science Education UK news:

• Education news from Aimhigher
• Education Guardian news
• Education Telegraph news

Biology news:

• News from Biology News Net
• News from Bio-Medicine.org

Chemistry news:

• News from Science Daily
• Chemistry World latest news

Physics news:

• Physics news from Science Daily
• PhysOrg latest physics headlines

Science experiments news:

• Naked Scientists do experiments

Fossil news:

• Fossil news from Science Daily
• Yahoo! fossil and dinosaur news

Science Australia:

• ABC Australia science news
• Environment news ABC Australia
• Health news from ABC Australia
• History of Australian science 

Medicine News Headlines

Cancer news

• Eurekalert! cancer news
• Cancer headlines from Yahoo!
• BBC cancer news
• MNSBC news cancer headlines
• CRC UK cancer news
• Science Daily cancer news
• HONI cancer news headlines
• Cancercompass top stories
• GEN cancer news
• ecancer news
• Headlines from cancernews.com  
• MNT cancer news

Stem cell research news

• Stem cell news Biology news net

Infectious disease news

• MSNBC news on infectious diseases
• World Health Organization bird flu
• Liverpool School Tropical Medicine

TB and respiratory infection news

• Respiratory infection news from Health Protection Scotland

AIDS/HIV news

• Daily HIV/AIDS news  
• African HIV AIDS research news

Medical journals current contents

• European J. of Clinical Nutrition  
• The British Medical journal - BMJ
• The Lancet
• The Lancet Oncology
• The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Technology Breaking News

• Latest news about the iPhone
• Technology news from the BBC
• Technology news from CNET news
• Computer technology and IT news
• Playstation news Playstation.com
• The latest gaming cheats news
• Gaming news from GamesIndustry
• Gaming news from GamerZines

Environment news updates

• The Independent climate change
• The Independent UK green living
• Irish Environment news
• GRIST environmental news
• African environmental news
• Environmental News Network news
• Environment headlines Reuters
• Environmental news ABC Australia
• News from Earthwire UK
• News from Greenpeace UK

Social science news

• Free electoral roll search UK
• Celebrities twitter news 
• BBC UK News

Science Update UK is a free news directory that collects together the latest news in science, medicine, health, technology, nature and the environment from news sites and publications from all over the world. Each outlet has its own page that displays the latest headlines from RSS feeds in easily viewable screens, all fully indexed by category.  

Kathryn Senior is our Senior Writer.

Science Update UK Features

Science Update is adding science news features and short science articles on a regular basis. The list of current science articles is:

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary and is a well known way of passing on new and frequently changing content from the initial news source to people looking for news headlines on the web. By subscribing to RSS feeds on different sites you can build up a collection of useful news outlets within a webrowser. Many science news sites syndicate their content in this way.

One of the problems with using a web browser to view feeds is that things rapidly become difficult to organise them and increasingly hard to look through them all. 

Science Update puts syndicated RSS feeds into easily viewable screens within web pages devoted to specific news sites. The advantage of getting all the latest news headlines here is that the feeds are indexed by topics and are much easier to find quickly.

380 million year old live birth

Embryo research debate  

New embryo research rules  

Stem cells and diabetes  

Insect telephones  

Why no more mammoths?  

Drug resistance to malaria up in Zambia  

Antibiotic resistant TB increases in UK

Vitamin D deficiency and tuberculosis

Breast cancer still kills too many

The truth about tuberculosis

Bird flu update

Why poison mozzarella is a worry

The link between asthma and pollution

New formats in Microsoft Office

Rock band game for Xbox 360  

Microseismic drilling works a treat

Cheap iPhone becomes a reality

Herbal viagra

Exploring the science of estuaries

Latest Health News

General health

• Yahoo! Health news
• Independent UK health news
• BBC health news headlines
• Daily Mail health news
• Health news from NHS Choices
• TNSMI health news
• European health research news
• Reuters Health news

Developing world

• Scidev.net developing world health
• Carter Center News  
• OECD developing world health news

Nature news updates

General nature news 

• Nature news New Scientist Earth
• Nature news from The Independent
• Nature News from Reuters News
• Natural History Museum, London, UK

Wildlife news

• Nature news from BBC nature
• Wildlife news from ENN

Space news

• EUREKALERT! space news
• Yahoo! space and astronomy news

Oceanography news

• EUREKAlert! Oceanography news

Social science updates

What use is good science news?

Science news on the web is useful to different audiences in a variety of ways. Academic medical research scientists use online medical journals such as The Lancet when they want to know the details of new publications in their field of expertise. Science teachers need to find new examples for course material. Students of all ages need to check facts, do research for science projects and homework and to use interactive revision guides. Many people are interested in popular science and in finding science news for kids.

Searching out new science news sources is easy with Science Update UK, a site that acts as a directory of websites from all over the world that supply science headlines and reports by RSS feeds.

News feeds from a range of sources are indexed within six categories; medical news, science news, technology news, environment news, nature news and the latest health news. These overall categories cover all the major fields of science. 

ScienceUpdate UK provides science news from a huge range of different types of science news site including established scientific journals, magazines, global news sites, personal blogs and everything in between.

If you have a site with an RSS feed that you would like to recommend for inclusion in ScienceUpdate UK, or you have simply found a suitable sci tech site, please email .