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Remove New Scientist Paywall

Paste a link from New Scientist: we try the live page first in a clean reader view, then archived copies on archive.today and the Wayback Machine. Free, no login.

metered paywall

New Scientist meters its science journalism and declares gated articles paywalled in its page data. Paste a link and we try the page text first, then archive.today and the Wayback Machine.

How to read New Scientist without paying

  1. Copy the full New Scientist article URL.
  2. Paste it above and press Remove Paywall.
  3. We show a clean reader view; use the Full page toggle or Open original if you prefer.

FAQ

Paste the New Scientist article URL into the box above and press Remove Paywall. RemovePaywall tries to read the article from the page, and if it can't, checks archive.today and the Wayback Machine.

You don't need a hack โ€” paste the New Scientist link above and RemovePaywall tries the article text on the page, then public archives (archive.today, the Wayback Machine).

Yes โ€” RemovePaywall is free and needs no login. It surfaces publicly archived copies and the article text already present on the page.

It reads the article from the page when the text is there, and otherwise looks for a full copy on archive.today and the Wayback Machine โ€” all in one step. New Scientist uses a metered wall, so the article is usually present in the page โ€” the reader view and archives recover it.

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