Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old ...

Brian Jackson (Physics) interacts with imagery from NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at “Valinor Hills” (acquired by the ...

Robert Maxwell founded a scientific publishing empire after World War II that turned research papers into a profitable business.

The rush for scientific cures and treatments for Covid-19 has opened the floodgates of direct communication between scientists and the public. Instead of waiting for their work to go through the slow ...

Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

The Trump administration’s attack on scientific institutions has been characteristically audacious: Eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded healthcare interventions and ...

As scientists race to understand the coronavirus, the process of designing experiments, collecting data and submitting studies to journals for expert review is being compressed drastically. What ...