This article was originally published with the title “ A Folding Table for Paper Hangers ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 63 No. 20 (November 1890), p. 307 doi:10.1038 ...

I created a dining table (or potentially a desk) using 5906 sheets of blue and black copy paper, resulting in what might be ...

Laying the groundwork. Legend has it that Mendeleev conceived and created his table in a single day: February 17, 1869, on the Russian calendar (March 1 in most of the rest of the world).

It depicts a taxonomy of the 12 “Types of Scientific Paper,” presented in a grid. “The immune system is at it again,” one paper’s title reads.

Resources to help students read science papers and interpret data. Share an infographic on how to read a scientific paper, and discuss it with your students (like this example by Natalia Rodriguez, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic flooded the public with both reporting and original scientific research. It was inescapable. Many people waded into these waters, if not for the first time, certainly more than ...

Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) and Kuszmaul demonstrated in a January 2025 paper that this new hash table can ...

In still others, authors said there had been accidental mistakes, and by May this year, 13 of the flagged papers had received corrections, most stating that scientific conclusions weren’t affected.

Writing high-quality scientific papers takes time, but it is time well invested. As you may have noticed, however, many scientific papers fail to usefully communicate research work to their audience.