By the end of the six Apollo missions that took place from 1969-72, astronauts brought back a total of 842 pounds of rocks and dust from the moon. Of the 2,200 samples, NASA scientists started studying all Read More
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Amidst a rapid and global “decoupling”1 from Russia, the scientific community appears divided over a full-blown academic boycott prohibiting Russian authors from publishing in international journals. Those supporting the ban hope that it will pressurize Read More
We’ve heard Coldplay sing “lights will guide you home” but can you imagine a mathematical theorem guiding ants home? Yes, you read it right. A group of scientists — Ioannis Pisokas, who is pursuing PhD Read More
Can an oink mean “I’m hungry”? Perhaps so! A team of researchers recently published a study1 that classifies 7,414 vocal expressions from 400 pigs, using AI, into positive and negative emotions. It gives the world an Read More
Being an independent researcher may have different implications based on your current career phase. Besides, the idea of independence for researchers inside academia and industry is not the same as it is for those who Read More
In early 2020, Nature announced1 an opportunity for authors to publish their peer-review exchanges with reviewers as an attempt to bring transparency to the peer review process, and nearly half of the authors who published in Read More
For the past few years, on every International Women’s Day, I have thought of reasons I’ve known young girls or women give for choosing not to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering, Read More
IOP Publishing has withdrawn 350 papers from two 2021 conference proceedings as evidence of systematic manipulation and considerable citation manipulation were observed during an investigation. Of the withdrawn papers, 232 articles were published in the Journal of Physics: Read More
Field Research. It’s romanticized. It stirs emotions of excitement and opportunity. At university, like all ordinary biology majors, we learned of Charles Darwin’s “Voyage of the Beagle” and how his visit to the Read More
An analysis of more than 37,000 articles1 reveals that authors from low-income countries opt to publish in paywalled journals over open access journals. While the scientific community has always speculated that authors from low-income countries will Read More