The periodic table merges scientific inquiry, international politics, hero worship, desires for structure and desires for credit. Formally, the modern periodic table is a systematic arrangement of ...

Real journals, fake science. Scientific journals are usually a source of reputable research and information, but recently thousands of fraudulent papers have been published in those journals and ...

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 ...

Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

About 55,000 scholarly papers have been retracted to date, for a variety of reasons, but scientists and companies who screen the scientific literature for telltale signs of fraud estimate that ...

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 ...

Credit: romeocane1/Getty. Science is getting harder to read From obscure acronyms to unnecessary jargon, research papers are increasingly impenetrable – even for scientists.