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Emma Rosi-Marshall's trouble started on 9 October 2007, the day her paper was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Rosi-Marshall, a stream ecologist at Loyola University [...]

The article discusses the most-cited researches in history. Topics include topics of papers and citations that has allowed them to reach the top the most cited research like Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics and Statistics, a chart showing the top 10 most cited researches and information on the first systematic effort to track citations the Science Citation Index (SCI).

Nature this week is retracting a 2000 paper that promised an advance in diabetes treatment using gene therapy. Confusion surrounding the paper, including allegations about fraudulent data, continues to afflict [...]

Some research ideas grow organically through years of careful thought; others emerge from sudden flashes of insight. But for one paper in this issue, the source of inspiration is somewhat [...]

Sometimes, people are no smarter in their decision-making than rats. At least, so it seemed from a paper shown to Arnon Lotem by his colleague and co-author Ido Erev. Lotem, [...]

At first glance it seems to be a shining example of the scientific method in action. Two papers published by biochemist Homme Hellinga and his students at Duke University Medical [...]

[illus. 1] For cancer researcher Todd Golub, the paper on page 335 of this issue represents a return to an early enthusiasm. Working as a postdoc at Brigham and Women's [...]

A Mediterranean megaflood left its mark on sea-floor rocks. Rarely do major geological events happen in 'flash'. But the bulk of a huge flood that provided enough water to fill [...]

Why are some areas of the world's oceans rich in plant growth, whereas others are biological deserts? The answer is that more than half the ocean has too little nitrogen [...]

In today's nano-age, lasers are just so micro. To generate their trademark focused beam, lasers must contain a cavity in which to resonate and stimulate atoms. But even with an [...]

When Motoyuki 'Moto' Ashikari comes into his laboratory in the evenings, staff at Nagoya University in Japan often mistake him for a student. Who else would be working late wearing [...]

The Cambrian period, roughly 500 million years ago, was marked by a seeming explosion of diverse multicellular organisms. For the past 10-15 years, the carbon-isotope signature in Precambrian limestone has [...]

For more than a century, geologists have been aware that some landscapes bear seemingly uniform patterns, such as evenly spaced ridges and valleys. Taylor Perron, a geologist at the Massachusetts [...]

As Neil Ganem spent many hours peering down a microscope in search of dividing cells, his adviser David Pellman at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, would sometimes joke [...]

Phil Baran still remembers the date that he ventured into new territory. On 12 January 2007, an editor at Nature Chemical Biology contacted him to ask whether he might write [...]