Preprint servers have existed for decades, but the fight against the coronavirus has seen their use soar. They’re changing how science is done—but need important guardrails. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...

In the coming years, AI is poised to transform the writing of scientific manuscripts, assist in reviewing them, and help editors select the most impactful papers. Artificial intelligence (AI), in ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as “The Great Geometer”, have survived in an Arabic manuscript kept ...

Scientific communication is often overlooked when training aspiring new scientists. After all, science has a reputation for dealing in data rather than opinions or arguments. However, as the ...

Reviewer comments on a scientific manuscript may seem critical and personal to authors, but they are generally well thought out and meant to enhance the understandability and integrity of the paper.

As part of its commitment to improving transparency in scientific publishing, Open Access science company DeSci Labs has released its new novelty scores feature. This is the first time an objective ...

The communication of scientific information largely requires the evaluation of data and concepts generated by scientific experimentation through the rigorous peer review process and the subsequent ...

Publication is essential to science. Scientists have an obligation to publish their results-to commit them to public scrutiny by distributing them widely in a permanent medium. In this article, we ...

Also of note, says Carter, is an early autographed copy of Kamal al-Din al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Farisi’s landmark work Kitab tanqih al-manazir li dhawi al-absar wa’l-basair (The Book of ...

Through the ages, innumerable texts have been consumed by fire, war, theft, and other disasters. Each ancient or medieval manuscript in existence today has its own story of survival against the odds, ...

Three cuttlefish and other marine and terrestrial animals. From an Arabic manuscript of Dioscurides' Book of Herbs. Credit: Leiden University Libraries. Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely ...