phys.org

{{short description|Science news website}}

{{Notability|Web|date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox website

| name = Phys.org

| logo = Phys.org new logo.png

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| foundation = {{Start date and age|2004}}

| website = {{Official URL}}

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Phys.org is an online science, research and technology news aggregator which re-publishes press releases and stories from news agencies (a business model known as churnalism).{{cite book|last1=Shipman|first1=W. Matthew|title=Handbook for Science Public Information Officers|date=2015|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226179469|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RZEpCwAAQBAJ|language=en}}{{cite news|last1=Timmer|first1=John|title=PR or science journalism? It's getting harder to tell|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/09/universities-band-together-to-aggregate-research-news/|work=Ars Technica|date=23 September 2009|language=en-us}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/01/11/adapting-to-the-new-ecosystem-of-science-journalism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728101133/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/01/11/adapting-to-the-new-ecosystem-of-science-journalism/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 28, 2018|title=Adapting to the new ecosystem of science journalism|last1=Yong|first1=Ed|date=11 January 2010|work=National Geographic Phenomena}} In 2012, PhysOrg.com was changed to Phys.org.{{cite web |title=PhysOrg.com is now PHYS.ORG |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406154846/http://phys.org/ |website=Phys.org |access-date=3 March 2025}} {{as of|2014}}, Phys.org was posting an average of 98 items per day.{{cite journal |last1=Ranger |first1=Mathieu |last2=Bultitude |first2=Karen |title='The kind of mildly curious sort of science interested person like me': Science bloggers' practices relating to audience recruitment |journal=Public Understanding of Science |date=October 30, 2014 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=361–378 |doi=10.1177/0963662514555054 |pmid=25361791 |pmc=4819792 }} It is part of the Science X network of websites, headquartered on the Isle of Man.