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newscientist.com
Science press First seen on HN · May 2026 · #2012 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from newscientist.com are almost always human-written.
newscientist.com has had 3 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 14%.
AI verdict · all time
0%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 100% Mixed 0% AI 0%
Articles analyzed
3
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
100%
3 articles < 10%
— Distribution
How AI scores spread
0–1010–2020–3030–4040–5050–6060–7070–8080–9090–100
HUMAN · 0–30%
MIXED · 30–70%
AI · 70–100%
— Trend
AI score by day
70 · AI → 30 · mixed →
earlierlatest
30d avg 0% Min 0% Max 1%
Trend ↓ falling
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
Mixed 30–70% AI
No articles in this range.
— Peer comparison
newscientist.com vs. similar sources
Hacker News average 14%
chrisistyping.bearblog.dev 0%
freerange.city 0%
newscientist.com YOU 0%
eatonphil.com 0%
zxbasic.readthedocs.io 0%