Big Questions RSS Feeds

Keep tabs on the biggest questions in science

More scientific papers are published now than ever before. I help you sort through the mess to find the needles in the ever-expanding, AI slop-laden haystack.

Through a combination of trial-and-error, internet stalking individual scientists, pretending to program, and coercing Google Scholar into doing things it really doesn't want to do, I've crafted several RSS feeds that serve up the most relevant, interesting scholarship on the "Big Questions" at the frontiers of science.

I use these feeds to monitor new research for my monthly "Big Questions" paper roundups, which present a few dozen of the most exciting scientific papers out each month with a bit of commentary to start. Paper roundups are free for everyone — subscribe to R2 to make sure you don't miss the next one. But if you're a you're a working scientist or science journalist in one of the fields I monitor (or just a maximalist), you can go straight to the source and use my RSS feeds yourself by becoming a paid subscriber.

“Big Questions” Paper Roundups
A monthly email digest of papers you’d find sitting on the desk of an old timey natural philosopher who’d been whisked to the present.

So far, I've set up three feeds: astrobiology, origin of life, and exoplanets. I will be adding more feeds as I go (up next: the brain) and constantly making improvements. Want a new feed for your pet topic? Think there's a source missing from an existing feed? Let me know at elise@reviewertoo.com.