Tweeting about your research increases the number of citations it goes on to attract, according to a new analysis. But outside experts...

It’s not your imagination: keeping up with the sheer amount of content that’s available today — whether it’s Twitter, the news, or the...

Children between the ages of 5 and 16 typically spend more than six hours a day in front of a screen. That rises to around eight hours...

When psychologist Courtenay Norbury came across a paper this week that had similar conclusions to research she published 12 years ago,...

A paper about combating cyberterrorism is coming under fire after allegations of plagiarism sparked on social media. The paper, which was...

Women coders are more competent than men as long as their gender is not disclosed, according to a new study. When their gender is made...

When cancer researcher Ritankar Majumdar published a blog post about collective names of scientists and shared it social media, his idea...

In this week's social selection column, I look at three scientific papers that were extensively discussed on social media. First, is a...

A spoof paper showing that mothers kissing their children's "boo-boos" did not help them feel better spread like wildfire on social...

Michael Eisen, a biologist from the University of California, Berkeley and co-founder of open access publisher Public Library of Science,...

When it comes to authorship of scientific papers, questions over who should be the first author, who deserves the most credit and whether...

When Ewan Birney, co-director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, was procrastinationg over...

Tweets and blogs are ripping apart science papers within days of publication and impact factors have long been criticised for their...