I grew up with a gift subscription to Science News and enjoyed its short and easily read descriptions of scientific advancements. Later I subscribed to Science, the professional journal. Although I was not doing science, I was finally knowing science not just knowing about science.
A scientific paper can be dry reading but it is more important to be whole than to be engaging. It must report what was done, what results ensued, how those have been interpreted and how this relates to the work of others.
By our Photographic Metaphor the paper is a photograph of an experiment completed. The news article is a photograph of photographs. One is a gateway to the blue plane while the other merely acknowledges its existence.
Example: headline news says what is going on but offers little insight as to how and why things happen. Making things happen is at a deeper level still.