[passwordoops]

Interesting. This phys.org article is authored "by Singapore University of Technology and Design"

So they take paid PR directly now? I guess it's better economics than paying a person to rewrite a low-quality summary and not as bad as an AI summarizing the original PR...

[s0rce]

This is pretty common for websites to just re-post the university press releases. When my papers got media coverage this was widespread, only a few places would write their own copy.

[dekhn]

Yes, that's exactly right. this is NewsWire for science.