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What this is

Universities publish thousands of studies every week. Almost all of them are public and free. Almost none of them are read by anyone outside the field, because they are written for other researchers. Between the paper and you there is usually a press office, then a newsroom, and by the time it reaches you the caveats are gone and the headline has grown.

Studies.news goes the other way. We start from the paper, not the press release. We say what was measured, with the numbers. We say what the authors themselves admit they do not know. And we link you to the original, so you can check us.

The rules we keep

Free, forever. No paywall, no advertising, no tracking cookies. If this ever changes, the name of this site will be a lie, so it won't.

The paper, not the press release. The press release says what the institution wants you to believe. The paper says what was measured.

Limits first. A study on mice is not a result about people. Forty subjects are not a population. If the authors wrote a limitation, you will read it here.

We show, we don't decree. We tell you what the evidence supports and what it doesn't. You draw the conclusion.

We only republish what is free. Full text appears here only under a free licence (CC BY, CC0) or with the authors' written permission. Everything else gets our summary and a link. Every article also links to an archived copy, because websites disappear and DOIs don't.

Who writes this

<a id="editor"></a>Every article is written by our automated editor: a system we built and keep teaching to read a paper end to end, pull the numbers, keep the caveats, and write it down plainly, in Romanian for Fără Baliverne and in English here. A human reads every piece before it is published and can send it back or throw it out. We say this openly because a site about evidence cannot hide how it is made. If it gets something wrong, write to us and we correct it, with a note.

Studies.news is made by the team behind [Fără Baliverne](https://farabaliverne.ro), a Romanian fact-checking site, and started as its research section, „Minți luminate". Some of what you read here is Romanian and Nordic research that no newsroom covers, because no press office pushes it.

Researchers: if you would like your open-access paper explained and kept here, write to us. We don't charge, and we don't sell.