Next-generation sequencing can be used to continually assess and monitor risks in patients with leukaemia, a new proof-of-principle study...

In April, developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop noticed strange phrases in a 2021 study of autistic children who interacted with...

At least 800 research studies published in crystallography and exotic-chemistry journals originate from a paper mill, a new study...

In 2016, an explosion involving hydrogen and oxygen at the University of Hawaii in Manoa shocked the scientific world after it led to a...

Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site,...

Want a higher h-index? Here’s a way — but be warned, it’s a method that will raise some eyebrows. Take the example of this computer...

Physics research papers authored by women receive fewer citations than expected given the number of women who work in the field and the...

Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...

The popular academic social networking site ResearchGate is appealing a 31 January ruling by a district court in Munich, Germany, which...

Can a microbial cocktail of seven different species of fungi help solve Indian farmers' stubble-burning crisis? I spoke to Ashok Kumar...

Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author...

A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their...

An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and...

There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As...

One paper is about the aesthetic beauty of plant landscapes. Another reviews the use of anesthetic drugs in cancer patients. A third aims...

China’s ministry of science and technology (MOST) has sanctioned hundreds of researchers after an investigation concluded that they had...

Hey, researchers and universities, want to be included in a new ranking scheme? No problem, just pony up some cash. The full article was...

In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...

Libraries need to become more user-friendly and to meet the demand of their patrons for digital services, according to a new survey...

An unprecedented number of first-time investigators have secured viewing time on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in the years since the...