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The science news website in Spanish
The science news website in Spanish esmateria.com @materia_ciencia facebook.com/materia.ciencia
Contact:Patricia Fernández de LisEditor in chief
[email protected] 34 660 40 30 75@pflis
Materia is the fastest-growing science news website in Spanish thanks to :
01. Top-quality articles written by an experienced, award-winning team of science journalists
02. We carefully select, research, write and edit our stories
03. We put our stories in context so they have an educational value
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01Republish our content
Materia operates on a Creative Commons Licence. Our contents can be republished free of charge in any website or print media in Spain, Latin America and the US
02All that matters
Materia covers the latest researchin biology, physics, paleonthology, astrophysics... Our articles are written in plain, clear and rigorouslanguage
We focus on the latest developments in health and life sciences research with special attention to neglected diseases
Special interest in technology, the Internet and their impact on society. We don't cover commercial launches disguised as innovations
We are committed to exposing pseudoscience and the lack of fact-based decision making in politics, society and education
Science in the news
Science and technology play a role in almost every newsworthy event. We explain the hows and whys in the news, it being sports, politics, economics...
Materiain threeideas
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03Who supports us?
Some of the most prestigious scientistsin Spain and Latin America are with Materia’s Editorial Board
Materia in three ideas
«Materia is a fascinating and encouraging project»
Manuel Lozano LeyvaDepartment of Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics. University of Seville.Professor
«Materia is not only answering a social demand, it isalso increasing it»
Miguel Delibes de CastroEstación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Researcher and former director.
«It is essential to disseminate scientific thought among our young readers, who are defenseless against irrationality»Carlo FrabettiWriter and mathemathician
«Science news need to be accurate and rigorous, but also enjoyable»Jose María Bermúdez de CastroCodirector of Atapuerca and Prince of Asturias Award Winner 1997
«Pseudoscience is a virus that can infect our entire culture»Mario BungePhysicist, philosopher and Prince of Asturias Award Winner 1982 «The scientific community has to opento science popularization»
Pedro AlonsoDirector of Barcelona Institute for Global Health and Prince of Asturias Award Winner 1982
About us
Materia was founded by a team of journalists who have worked with renowned Spanish news oulets like El País, El Mundo, ABC, La Voz de Galicia, Agencia EFE or Informativos Telecinco.
In summer 2007 we founded the science section of the Madrid-based newspaper Publico. It was was the largest of its kind across the Spanish press. Our job was recognized with half a dozen awards, including the most prestigious prize for science journalism in Spain (Prisma Especial del Jurado de los Museos Científicos Coruñeses in 2010)
Our newsroom is devoted to select, write and edit the top-quality science news, videos and infographics
We believe that writing, editing and publishing news is a collective endeavour which needs to be carried out in a newsroom
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A successful launch
Materia launched July 3rd 2012
#Materia was number one Trending Topic in Spain the day our launch was announced. We have more than 130.000 unique users on our website, almostone millon page views, and tens of thousands users on Twitter, Facebook, Storify, YouTube, RSS feeds and our email-alert service. Materia is thus the fastest-growing Scientific news website in Spanish language
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A successful launch
Our stories have been republished by 200 newspapers, websites and educational outlets in Spain, Latin America and the US
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Why Materia matters
The interest of the Spanish population in science news has grown 36% in the last four years. (Source: Fecyt)
According to the study 'Science News in Latin America',
newspapers in the region are aware of the interest of their readers in science, health and enviroment issues, but they find "great difficulties"in finding and understanding stories related with these issues, due to the lack of specialized journalists
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03.53 percent of Spanish population think that there isn't enough sciencenews is Spanish media. (Source: Fecyt)
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«We live in a society
exquisitely dependent on science and
technology, where hardly anyone
knows anything about science and
technology»Carl Sagan
Contact:
Patricia Fernández de LisEditor in chief
[email protected] 34 660 40 30 75@pflis
esmateria.com@materia_cienciafacebook.com/materia.ciencia
