Publishing
The lucrative rise of the self-published best-seller
Technology
In 2012, the American dystopian fiction writer Hugh Howey entered the rarefied ecosystem of blockbusting authors when his book Wool began selling ...
Mirror publisher warns Facebook poses ‘potent threat to civil society’
Business
The publisher of the Mirror and Express newspapers has warned that Facebook poses a “potent threat to civil society”, despite having the ...
Encyclopedia Britannica plots $1bn stock market listing
Business
Encyclopædia Britannica is preparing to join the US stock market with a hoped-for $1bn (£850m) valuation. The publisher behind the centuries-old encyclopædia ...
More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
Science
A study identified more than two million articles that did not appear in a major digital archive, despite having an active DOI.Credit: ...
‘All of Us’ genetics chart stirs unease over controversial depiction of race
Health
Geneticists have become concerned about how the research they publish could be interpreted incorrectly by the public.Credit: Tek Image/Science Photo Library Some ...
How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images
Science
Journals are making an effort to detect manipulated images of the gels used to analyse proteins and DNA.Credit: Shutterstock It seems that ...
The open-science movement for sharing laboratory materials gains momentum
Science
More practitioners are needed to support the open-science movement to disseminate materials such as bacterial DNA plasmids.Credit: Daniela Beckmann/Science Photo Library Lenny ...
how 100 years have shaped science
Science
A century after the invention of bakelite (widely used to make early phones), talks are under way to agree on a treaty ...
Awe-inspiring microscopic world hidden on the surface an autumn leaf wins top prize at the Royal Society Publishing photo competition 2023
Science
These are the awe-inspiring pictures that wowed the Royal Society’s Publishing Photography Competitition’s judged – with the winner going to a close-up ...
Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?
Science
During the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020, testing kits for the viral infection were scant in some countries. So the idea of ...
