Universities band together to launch content-rich website

You may be interested to know that the early universe might have had only one dimension, like a straight line.

Or that playing a musical instrument may help fight cognitive decline. Or that African-American students are more likely to tweet than their white counterparts.

Stories on these topics are published on Futurity, a website launched by a consortium of university communicators at a time when the mainstream media are slashing their coverage of science and research.

Futurity looks more like a snazzy Web magazine than a link farm for science abstracts. It offers a model for organizations—corporate and government—to enable the public to tap into aquifers of content.