Photo by Alfons Morales on Unsplash. In the last three decades the number of experiments included in academic biology publications from top tier journals has increased two to fourfold. In many cases ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research and recent preprints points to statistical warning signs that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the ocean conveyor belt that includes the Gulf ...

Science is about discovery. But discovery does little good unless it is shared. The way we have traditionally shared information in biomedicine — submitting articles to peer-reviewed journals — can ...

We remind our readers about our policies on the use of preprints: in short, we support them. A Nature Methods author can post a preprint prior to submission without fearing a penalty. Most physics ...

Scientific publication has followed a specific infrastructure for many years. A researcher (or research group) completes their study, conducts a write-up including the rationale behind the study, the ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Max Crispin had been a little wary of preprints. He’d worked with collaborators who submitted their joint work to preprint servers, which allow public access to papers ...

Jonathon Alexis Coates is affiliated with preLights (a preprint highlighting service) and ASAPbio (a nonprofit promoting innovation and transparency in life sciences communication). Since the first ...

The rapid emergence in China of 2019-nCoV, a novel coronavirus, and its spread beyond its borders highlights the need for rapid scientific communication to better characterize transmissibility ...

When medRxiv, a site that hosts unpublished research manuscripts -- called preprints -- in the medical sciences launched in June 2019, things got off to a slow start. “It may take off slowly,” John ...

Scientific publication has followed a specific infrastructure for many years. A researcher (or research group) completes their study, conducts a write-up including the rationale behind the study, the ...