Back in the day, David Bradley Science Writer of sciencebase fame developed the novel idea of science news sites on the web. His Elemental Discoveries site back begun in December 1995 was possibly even the first of its kind. Others followed for various for various organisations including the erstwhile PSIGate and Intute. The webzine was known as Spotlight. When Intute was shuttered many years ago, Bradley brought the news archives into the fold of a new website, ScienceSpot.
While ScienceSpot itself ultimately evolved into a repository for research news picks for another publisher, the archives from the old PSIGate and then Intute Spotlight sites are still here. They represent a snapshot of a decade or so of cutting edge physical sciences, you can find a list of the old categories in the menus.