Are you reading this more than a day and a half after it was posted on Nature's news site? If so, it's a fair bet that either you've unearthed it from an archive or the article is unusually popular.
A team of scientists from Hungary and the United States has found that the majority of online news items have a lifetime of just 36 hours. As reporters have always suspected, yesterday's news is stale, and the day before's news is invisible.
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