Sciencebase Science Newsfeed Info

Put simply a newsfeed is a way to keep up to date with this website.

Science NewsfeedWherever you see the orange newsfeed icon on the Sciencebase site, just click it to subscribe to our full-text newsfeed in your favourite newsreader. You can even add a news feed to your iGoogle page, Bloglines, your My Yahoo! page, Newsgator, AOL, Rojo, or Technorati favorites to keep up to date with Sciencebase.. With a newsreader you get all the latest posts direct to your desktop without even having to visit the site! Better than that, you don't even have to give us your email address to use the newsfeed. You can even share posts, bookmark them, and comment on them, all without having to hit the Sciencebase site, just click the appropriate links in the newsfeed.

Not got a newsreader installed?

Not to worry, we have set things up (using Feedburner) so that you get various choices when you click that newsfeed icon. Anyway, you shake it depending on your browser, you get options that allow you to subscribe for free to the Sciencebase newsfeed. And, if you prefer a traditional content delivery method, you can still subscribe by email to get the latest updates delivered right into your mailbox, click the big blue email subscription button for that, and remember, it's still free and strict privacy policies mean your email is safe and secure.

You can also use an online news reader such as:

There are also standalone news readers called aggregators, such as Snarfer, which has the Sciencebase newsfeed built in under their "science" tab, just download and install the program, jump to the science tab and away you go.

If you're using the Firefox web browser you can save our newsfeed as a live bookmark, which updates with the latest headlines regularly. The comments feed and the Science Extra feeds are also available via the orange RSS icon that will appear in the address bar.

Same goes for Internet Explorer 7 which can handle our newsfeed just as easily, just click the orange icon in the toolbar (you can choose newsfeed, comments feed, or science extra).

If you're a Thunderbird email fan, then simply create a News & Blogs account and read our headlines just like your regular email, without even having to send us your email address. Or, if you are a member of Google's Orkut community you can add our newsfeed to your feeds section.

So, what are you waiting for? Click the newsfeed icon and get our full-text newsfeed with all the latest headlines and content from the Sciencebase Science Blog. But, don't forget to drop by the site every now and then for the very latest breaking science news, science fair projects, politics, health news, and much more, including access to our video posts and our additional special feature articles that do not appear in the newsfeed. Please vote on this page and leave your thoughts here.