Those familiar with play on the oblong table, and who have tested the arc-oval design, concede that the latter gives a more scientific basis to the game, and provides far greater possibilities for ...

Data reveals that the past two decades have produced an extraordinary surge in scientific progress, with over 40 million ...

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

Plus, as my Science News colleague Lila Guterman points out, his table did not fit neatly on a single sheet of paper. It’s too bad nobody paid attention, because Janet had a lot to offer.

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 ...

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, ...

Including pictorial summaries of each article on the table-of-contents pages of a journal makes it just that little bit easier to browse — rather than search — the scientific literature.

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 ...

About 55,000 scholarly papers have been retracted to date, for a variety of reasons, but scientists and companies who screen the scientific literature for telltale signs of fraud estimate that ...

Journalists tend to understate — not exaggerate — scientific findings, study finds The study compared paper abstracts with corresponding news articles and found that journalists generally ...

The paper mill problem is “absolutely huge,” said Sabina Alam, director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at Taylor & Francis, a major academic publisher.In 2019, none of the 175 ethics cases ...