A recent claim of water on an extrasolar planet raises broader questions about how science news is reported, says Philip Ball
‘Scientists discover just what they expected’ is not, for obvious reasons, a headline you see very often. But it could serve for probably a good half of the stories reported in the public media, and would certainly have been apt for the recent reports of water on a planet outside our Solar System.
A recent claim of water on an extrasolar planet raises broader questions about how science news is reported, says Philip Ball
‘Scientists discover just what they expected’ is not, for obvious reasons, a headline you see very often. But it could serve for probably a good half of the stories reported in the public media, and would certainly have been apt for the recent reports of water on a planet outside our Solar System.
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