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title: "Can Perplexity help find the original research behind a news story?"  
description: "Can Perplexity help find the original research behind a news story?"  
author: "Aidar Khabibullin"  
published: 2026-10-21  
updated: 2026-10-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162608/can-perplexity-help-find-the-original-research-behind-a-news-story  
category: "AI Research Search"  
tags: ["Perplexity", "research", "Citations", "Fact checking"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Can Perplexity help find the original research behind a news story?

When a science or health story makes the rounds, I often find several articles repeating the same claim but not linking to the study itself. Can Perplexity trace that chain back to the **original research paper**, rather than stopping at a press release or a news summary?

I’m curious what wording or follow-up questions work best for this, and how you handle cases where the study is paywalled or the articles point to different papers. I’m not looking for a medical verdict—just a more dependable way to locate the source being discussed.


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