How Articles Daily works
Every day, newly published open-access research explained for curious non-experts, with visuals and a link to the original peer-reviewed paper.
How papers are chosen
- Peer reviewed only. Preprints and papers that haven't been checked by independent experts are never used.
- Free to read, openly licensed. Every paper comes from a fully open-access journal listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and each article's own license is checked before it is summarized. Paywalled papers are never considered.
- Recent and interesting. The aim is new discoveries that change what we know or open doors to new tools, explained for anyone curious.
- Today is always different. The Today tab features one paper from any subject that went public in the last 24 hours. It never repeats a story from the subject tabs, which each carry their own articles.
How summaries are written
Each summary is written by AI from the full text of the paper, in its own words rather than copying the abstract, and follows the same structure: the question, what the researchers did, what they found, and why it matters. Each also lists the study's limitations ("the fine print"). Summaries can contain mistakes, so every article links to the original paper for anyone who wants to check or go deeper.
"How sure are we?"
Every article carries a four-step rating: Early clue, Promising, Solid or Well established. It's our plain-language read of how strong the evidence is (for example, a small lab prototype versus years of consistent observations), not a score from the authors. The note beside it says why.
About the visuals
Charts and diagrams are drawn fresh for this site from numbers stated in each paper. The papers' own figures are never copied. When a number is converted (for example, from an angle to meters), the article says so.
The journal pool
Papers are drawn from these open-access journals (all listed in DOAJ):