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Research publishing

December 2023

  • A Uyghur woman through a street silhouetted against the light

    Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns

  • Santa Claus giving gifts to children by the fireside

    The real Santa’s face: ID software sorts Father Christmas from his stand-ins

November 2023

  • Clostridium difficile seen under optical microscopy.

    Bleach does not tackle fatal hospital superbug, UK researchers find

    Following government guidance by using disinfectant to tackle C diff bacteria proved ineffective in experiments

January 2023

  • The Atlas particle detector at Cern in Switzerland.

    Splitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physics

    At Cern and elsewhere, a reluctance to give Russian researchers authorship credit on new papers has led to stalemate

November 2022

  • Dead cow being added to a pile of carcasses due to be burned

    UK vulnerable to major animal disease outbreaks, report finds

  • Jeremy Gibson

    Other lives
    Jeremy Gibson obituary

September 2022

  • An archaeological excavation at Liang Tebo cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo

    31,000-year-old skeleton missing lower left leg is earliest known evidence of surgery, experts say

    Finding by Australian and Indonesian archaeologists in remote Borneo cave rewrites understanding of human history

August 2022

  • People talking

    Four minutes of small talk can reveal key personality traits, study says

    Exchanging pleasantries can leave lasting impression and affect future social interactions, research suggests

March 2022

  • Yellow car in empty night street and cosy light spot on asphalt road.

    Street lighting increases theft from cars, rather than deterring opportunists

    Night-time thefts from vehicles almost halved where lights were turned off between midnight and 5am

December 2021

  • Elena Ceaușescu

    ‘A moral issue to correct’: the long tail of Elena Ceaușescu’s fraudulent scientific work

  • Elisabeth Bik

    Misinformation fuelled by ‘tsunami’ of poor research, says science prize winner

September 2021

  • road traffic on a busy motorway with several lanes

    Transport noise linked to increased risk of dementia, study finds

    Large survey involving two million adults found links between road and rail traffic and Alzheimer’s in particular

August 2021

  • Engraving by the Georgian caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson depicting fatal remedies and the skeleton of death

    Insanity the common verdict on suicides in 18th century England

    Official records contrast with witness evidence of loneliness and physical decline among older people in Georgian society

June 2021

  • A Chinese flag flying over a mosque in the Xinjiang region.

    Science journal editor says he quit over China boycott article

    David Curtis says publisher of Annals of Human Genetics blocked call for protest at treatment of Uyghurs

February 2021

  • Illustration of steppe mammoths

    Million-year-old mammoth genomes set record for ancient DNA

    DNA from teeth found in Siberia permafrost the oldest yet sequenced, pushing science into ‘deep time’

October 2020

  • A sinovac researcher working on a covid-19 vaccine. some 90% of the firm’s employees and their families have been injected with the experimental jab

    Can we trust Chinese Covid-19 science?

  • Conventional wisdom is that people living in big cities are less likely than those in smaller towns to help strangers.

    Big city indifference to strangers may be a myth, study suggests

May 2020

  • Depiction of dinosaurs in a stressed Late Jurassic environment

    Allosaurus dinosaur suspected to be scavenging cannibal

  • woman helping child on computer with pens in foreground

    Women's research plummets during lockdown - but articles from men increase

January 2020

  • FILE PHOTO: A health worker fills a syringe with Ebola vaccine before injecting it to a patient, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

    Global research
    Coronavirus and Ebola: could open access medical research find a cure?

    Campaigners have argued for open access to scientific research since the dawn of the internet – so why is it taking so long?
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