About Science Reader

Intelligence, both human and artificial. What makes them similar, what makes them different? What do we discover when we use them?

Science Reader is an independent science journalism site that covers AI, consciousness, physics, space, and scientific discovery. We focus on the places where human and artificial intelligence meet, and on the science that is redefining what intelligence means.

What we cover

Our coverage follows three editorial pillars:

The New Intelligence: AI in science, and the science of AI. How the tools we build to understand the world are beginning to reshape our understanding of what understanding means.
The Science of Thought: Consciousness, memory, cognition, and perception. The questions that become urgent when you try to build a mind and realize you don't fully understand your own.
The World We Discover: Physics, space, mathematics, and life sciences. The wonder and the stakes of scientific discovery, told from the inside.

We also maintain a science glossary with 230+ terms, each written to give readers genuine understanding rather than textbook definitions.

Who we are

Science Reader is a personal project created and edited by Tormod Guldvog, a communicator, AI strategist and management advisor based in Oslo, Norway.

Science Reader editor is Tormod Guldvog. Photo shows a man in his 50s with grey hair, smiling. — Tormod Guldvog. Photo by Sara Cathrine Hansen.

Tormod has over 30 years of experience in writing, science communication and web publishing. He has reviewed and discussed around 100 popular science books on NRK Radio (Norway's national broadcaster), interviewing many scientists and writers including Brian Greene, George Dyson, and John Barrow. He founded the science website Hypography - Science for Everyone (1998-2013) and served as web editor for the Norwegian Space Centre. He was also Corporate Web Manager for a large, multinational enterprise.

Today Tormod works as a strategy advisor at a major European consultancy, helping government and corporate clients implement, govern, and get return on investment (ROI) from generative AI.

How we work

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Science Reader uses a process we call duowriting, which implies human editorial direction combined with AI research and editorial assistance. Every article is conceived, guided, reviewed, edited, and approved by a human editor. The AI serves as a writing and research assistant; it does not publish independently or make editorial judgments.

We are fully transparent about AI involvement. Every article carries a colophon stating what role AI played in its creation.

All articles go through a structured fact-checking process, including independent verification against external sources. The results are visible at the end of each article, claim by claim, so readers can see exactly what was checked and what was found. Read more in our editorial standards.

Sources and fact-checking

We always credit sources, and we always display sources after each article. We also credit images, attribute quotes, and we strive to use inline links to let readers find papers and sources directly. Sometimes a source is deemed unreliable after a story is published (usually due to AI hallucination). We then remove the source and rewrite the relevant part of the story - and sometimes we remove the article if it turns out the source was an AI science mill or publish AI slop.

We employ a process where we fact check both our research and our drafts - then we run an extended final fact check where we pitch Claude vs Perplexity in a 3-round interaction. They each build their own lists of claims, check them, discuss findings, and build a consensus. If something needs to be adjusted or corrected, it is done and marked in the fact check result. We publish the fact check results after each story so readers can review as they wish.

Editorial independence

Science Reader is an independent publication. We are not funded by any research institution, corporation, or advocacy group. Our editorial decisions are not influenced by advertisers or sponsors.