Last updated: 3 October 2026
Sciencepedia is a bilingual science encyclopedia covering the cosmos, life, the human body and the Earth. This page explains who stands behind the articles, how they are written and checked, where AI is involved, and how to tell us when something is wrong.
Every article is currently credited to Ban biên tập Sciencepedia (the Sciencepedia editorial board). That is the collective name of the editorial process described below. It is not a person.
No scientist or medical professional currently reviews the articles on this site, so we do not put an individual’s name in the reviewer field. Naming someone who has not read the article would be false attribution. When a human editor does sign an article, their name and expertise will appear on it and on this page.
Most of the writing is done by AI models (Claude, by Anthropic) following a fixed, multi-step process:
This review is still AI checking AI-written text. It catches some mistakes the writing step misses, but it can share the writing model’s blind spots, and it has let errors through, for example a citation to the right paper where the paper does not say what it is cited for. It is not equivalent to a human expert. We say so plainly so that you can judge how far to rely on it.
Some articles are written and published directly by Sciencepedia’s operator through the admin interface. These do not go through the steps above before they appear: sources and review are added afterwards, so for a while such an article is visible before it has been checked.
The AI question-answering and term-explanation features are always labelled as AI. Those explanations are generated when you ask, are not reviewed, and are never stored as encyclopedia content.
When choosing sources, the process prefers, in order:
Each article lists its sources under “References” at the end. Where an article shows a “Sources checked” date, that is the last time its claims were compared against the sources again. Where sources still disagree, the article keeps their level of caution rather than writing as if the question were settled.
Articles about the human body, sleep, nutrition or medicines provide general knowledge only. They have also only been through the AI review described above; no doctor or health professional has reviewed them. They are not a substitute for medical advice and are not meant for self-diagnosis or self-treatment. Do not start, stop or change a medicine based on an article. If you have a specific health concern, ask a health professional. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
Images come from several places: public-domain images from NASA, ESA and ESO images under open licences, Wikimedia Commons, Unsplash and some other image libraries. Some illustrations were made with AI image tools. The author or source is credited at the end of the article; some images are still missing a credit, which we treat as an error to fix. If you own an image and find it used or credited incorrectly, please tell us as described below.
Found a wrong number, a source that does not say what the article cites it for, or a miscredited image? Email sciencepedia.contact@gmail.com, or use the Contact page. Include the link to the article, the passage you think is wrong and, if you can, the source you are relying on.
Every change to a claim in a published article is recorded in our corrections log (old claim, new claim, basis), and the version before the change is kept. The new claim must have a source. Where the article has an English version, both versions are fixed, and the article’s updated and sources-checked dates change accordingly. Articles do not yet show a separate note for each correction.