Unread Index Rankings
Every story we publish carries an Unread Index: a significance score out of 10 and a count of the other coverage we found. This page ranks them side by side. By default the stories at the top are the ones with the widest gap between how much they matter and how much attention they have received.
- Does Low-Dose Radiation Help Arthritic Knees, or Do Patients Just Feel Better? Unread 8/10 2 outlets
- The $10 Scrap Sale That Put Radioactive Rebar in Mexican Homes Underread 8/10 3 outlets
- Twice the NRC Was Pushed to Drop Its Radiation Model. So Far, It Hasn’t. Underread 8/10 4 outlets
- America Wants Domestic Medical Isotopes. Can the Economics Work? Underread 8/10 6 outlets
- Tennessee Ends Certificate-of-Need Review for Cath Labs and Satellite EDs, Replacing It With Licensure Under the radar 6/10 0 outlets
- The Cesium Cloud That Crossed Europe Before Anyone Named Its Source Under the radar 6/10 0 outlets
- The Soviet Satellite That Scattered a Reactor Across Canada Under the radar 6/10 2 outlets
- ECG-Free Cardiac Gating From Routine FDG PET Works in Danish Study Under the radar 5/10 0 outlets
- The Heart-Rate Response Hiding in a Cardiac PET Stress Test Under the radar 5/10 0 outlets
- The Night Hanford Released Radioactive Iodine on Purpose Under the radar 5/10 1 outlet
- The Only U.S. Commercial Reprocessing Plant Is Gone, but Its Glass Waste Has Nowhere to Go Under the radar 5/10 2 outlets
- Before AI Can Read the Plaque, Someone Has to Fix the Image Under the radar 4/10 0 outlets
- North Carolina Will Let Providers in Large Counties Add MRI Scanners Without Certificate-of-Need Review Starting November 21, 2026 Covered 6/10 5 outlets
- The Spy Mission That Left a Plutonium Generator Missing in the Himalayas Covered 6/10 6 outlets
- Could Nuclear Imaging Help Close the Endometriosis Diagnostic Gap? Covered 6/10 6 outlets
- AHA Report Says Over 40% of Rural Hospitals Have Negative Margins as Federal Policy Changes Loom Covered 4/10 4 outlets
- The Lost Quarry Capsule That Ended Up Inside an Apartment Wall Covered 2/10 3 outlets
- Tempus Announces FDA Clearance for ECG-MR, an AI Tool Flagging Possible Undiagnosed Mitral Regurgitation Widely covered 4/10 7 outlets
Reading the labels. Two kinds of label appear here. The first three are verdicts, given only when a story's significance outruns its coverage. The last three simply describe how much coverage we found, whatever the score.
- Unread Significance 7 or more, and 2 or fewer outlets.
- Underread Significance 7 or more, and 3 to 6 outlets.
- Under the radar Significance 4 or more, and 2 or fewer outlets.
- Low profile, Covered, Widely covered No verdict: 0 to 2, 3 to 6, or 7 or more outlets. A high score with “Widely covered” means the story matters and is already getting attention.
Significance is scored out of 10. Outlets are the other news, trade and journal sources we found covering the same development. Press releases and other sources, such as reference sites, blogs, social posts and stock-news reprints, are not counted. Historical stories count coverage from the past five years; current stories count coverage since the development was announced. How the Unread Index works.