Open science’ is a radical shift from traditional research practices. But it can help research integrity in several ways.

Science fiction can be valuable in the broader communication ecosystem, bringing science to the public and offering ...

BioRxiv and medRxiv are becoming an independent nonprofit, called openRxiv. The new format, which takes the preprint ...

The phenomenon of mafiocracy presents a substantial challenge to democratic institutions worldwide. Organized crime groups (OCGs) infiltrate state ...

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the ...

Researchers from Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan institutions analyze the barriers that low- and middle-income countries face in disseminating research on intensive care medicine, particularly in ...

An Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave hospital with an artificial heart made of titanium. The device is used as a stopgap for people with heart failure ...

Four researchers have sued six of the world’s biggest publishers ... “The need to confront what has been going on in the scientific publishing area is very overdue,” said Tim Errington ...

Fed by vast troves of scientific data, A.I. promises to generate new drugs to combat disease, new agriculture to feed the world’s population and new materials to unlock green energy — all in a ...

When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. But as Sarah Wild discovers, its ...

The disease was first discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. A few months later, the disease spread all over the world and became an epidemic. The infection for most people ...