How We Work
Nothing to hide.
The internet is filling with machine-made text that no one stands behind. We are built to be the opposite: AI helps us write, but accuracy and citation are not negotiable, and we show our work so you never have to take ours on faith.
How a story is chosen
Each day we look for one discovery worth your attention. We draw from reputable science press and from open-access sources — peer-reviewed journals, preprint servers, and the announcements universities and research institutions publish about their own work. We favor findings that are real, recent, and well documented over whatever happens to be loud.
We do not run sponsored science. No organization can pay to have its research covered, and no one outside our project decides what we publish.
How it is written
A first draft is produced by an AI model running on our own machines — not a distant service we cannot inspect. We are candid about this: a machine helps with the writing. What a machine does not get to do is decide what is true.
Every story is written at three reading levels from the same underlying facts:
- Deep Dive — full depth and rigor.
- The Story — the human narrative, our default reading level.
- The Spark — the wonder, simply told.
How it is fact-checked
Before anything is published, every factual claim in the draft is checked against the source it came from. This is where we are strictest. A deterministic gate — a plain, rule-based check, not a judgment call — scans the text and blocks any number or date that does not appear in the cited source. An invented statistic or a fabricated date cannot pass.
When the check finds a problem, the draft is sent back and corrected against the source, then checked again. A story that cannot be reconciled with its sources does not run. We would rather publish nothing that day than publish something we cannot stand behind.
How you can verify it
Every article lists the sources it is built on, so you can read them yourself and confirm what we say. We are not asking you to trust us — we are handing you the means to check.
The researchers behind each discovery are named and credited as the people who actually did the work. The science is theirs; our job is only to carry it to you clearly and honestly.
Corrections
We will get things wrong. When we do, we fix the article and say plainly what changed, so the record stays honest. If you spot an error, please tell us — a correction is not an embarrassment to hide but the whole point of working in the open.