Updated 5-16-23. Let me know if any wonderful publications and other resources are left out of this informally assembled list. Scroll down for links to forums.
• Aeon ("a sanctuary online for serious thinking")
• Ars Technica
• Cosmos (the science of everything)
• Ag Insider (Food and Environment Reporting Network)
• Cosmos
• Council for the Advancement of Science (CASW) See Resources and Stories.
• Discover
• Environmental Health News (EHN, publisher of several newsletters: (Above the Fold, The Daily Climate, Good News, Plastic Pollution, Children’s Health, Energy & Health, Science Saturday, The Weekend Reader, Population Weekly, Pittsburgh Weekly)
• Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN, publishes Ag Insider)
• Food Dive (See also BioPharma Dive, Construction Dive, Education Dive, Healthcare Dive, MedTech Dive, Restaurant Dive, Smart Cities Dive, Social Media Today, Utility Dive, Waste Dive)
• GreenBiz Featured columns. See also webcasts and Video
• JSTOR
• Massive Science (New science stories every week, written by scientists themselves)
• Mosaic Longform stories about science and health. (Closed 12-10-19). No longer publishing but archive still available under Creative Commons license.
• National Geographic Magazine
• Nature (an esteemed and heavily cited science journal)
• Nautilus (each issue on a special topic, backed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• New Scientist (realistic news reporting, from UK)
• Newswise
• The Open Notebook provides tools and resources to help science, environmental, and health journalists at all experience levels sharpen their skills. For example, Kathryn Schulz Paints a Chilling Picture of “The Really Big One” and Science Journalism Master Classes
• Politico
• Pro Publica (Journalism in the Public Interest)
• Quanta Magazine (Oxford)
• Retraction Watch (tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process). See Retraction Watch FAQ, including Comments policy.
• SciDev.Net (from the Global South) Bringing science & development together through news and analysis
• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Reports on scientific research.
• Science Daily
• Science Journalism Resources (Science Literacy Project)
• Science News (Society for Science & Society, short articles about new scientific and technical developments--independent journalism since 1921)
• Scientific American (for nonscientists who love science)
• SciShow (Complexly, video). Click on "Our Shows" to find PBS EONS and other informative video channels.
• STAT (inside news about health and medicine, free online) and STAT Plus (Exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences, for paid subscribers only)
• STAT: The Readout (what’s new in biotech). Sign up for the newsletter.
• Toolkit (World Federation of Science Journalists)
• Twitter (follow your favorite writers and, by hashtag, subjects. Ivan Oransky gets text-message alerts for when his favorite people (with a high "signal-to-noise ratio") post.
• Twitter feed, National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
• Undark "Truth, Beauty, Science." (exploring science as a "frequently wondrous, sometimes contentious, and occasionally troubling byproduct of human culture")
• The Upshot (analytical journalism, often with graphics, from the New York Times)
• Verification Handbook (A guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage) Provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies. Read the book
• Wired (for tech geeks and occasionally those of us merely curious about computer stuff)
Also of interest:
• Where journalists get their medical news and information (Pat McNees, a separate blog post on this site)
• The 15 Best Science Websites for News, Research, and Features (Elysium Health, Endpoints, 9-22-17) Excellent brief descriptions of top science magazines and websites.
• How Americans Get Science News and Information (Cary Funk, Jeffrey Gottfried and Amy Mitchell, Pew Research Institute, 9-20-17)
• How Do Science Writers Get Their Stories? (Council for the Advancement of Science Writing)
• Ten Websites Supporting Science Journalism (Association for Science in Autism Treatment) Read ASAT's notes about these resources and others:
---Journalist's Resource (Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy)
---The Open Notebook
---The Poynter Institute
---SciDevNet (a nonprofit 'news analysis' organization that provides information about science and technology for equitable, sustainable development and poverty reduction: "Bringing science & development together through news & analysis")
---Showcase (Council for Advancement of Science Writing, or CASW)
---Tip Sheets for Science Journalism (Science Literacy Project)
Online scientific forums (or fora), as recommended in a NASW discussion:
• Biology online
• Biology Stack Exchange (one of many StackExchange sites)
• BIOSCI/Bionet (used by biological scientists worldwide)
• BioStars (Bioinformatics, explained)
• ResearchGate
• ScienceForums.net, with its subforums, such as Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
By all means, check out the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).
Are there others? Let me know.