neuroscience, science publishing

Ron Vale has spent a career studying how molecular motors transport cargo within cells. He’s also developed tools to help scientists communicate their findings.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2015 issue of The Scientist.

Rediscovery of a snail thought to be extinct has raised questions about the peer-review process that approved the publication of the extinction report.

Proponents of open-access publishing question the newly announced terms of publishing in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s forthcoming journal.

New PLOS data sharing rules; mouse cortical connectome published; reprogramming astrocytes into neurons and fibroblasts into hepatocytes

On whether online comments help or hurt science

The top online archives for storing your unpublished findings

A new journal that publishes peer review comments alongside its manuscripts goes live.

As a new age in scholarly publishing dawns, improved standards for openness in communicating scientific information promise to eliminate biases and publication delays.

Meet some of the people featured in the August 2012 issue of The Scientist.

To the great scientific leaps witnessed during our first 25 years, and the game changers yet to come.

In Chapter 3, “Credibility: Validating Discovery Claims,” author Frederick Grinnell details the difficulty in making discoveries that buck current scientific paradigms.