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This journal will double down on efforts to diversify the pool of corresponding authors and referees.

Data on Sci-Hub activity prompts discussion about why the research-paper website is so popular.

Nanotubes plus paper make for flexible batteries.

Researchers on social media buzzed about an article that showed a growing citation rate for older papers.

Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.

Scienceretracts paper linking virus to chronic fatigue syndrome.

Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.

Giant survey suggests journals should pay more attention to detecting inappropriate duplications.

Virus study used data released online without adequate acknowledgement, researcher complains.

'RNA nanoconstruction' has been the focus of a decade-long controversy.

Physicists have posted 150 manuscripts to the arXiv preprint server in the wake of December's announcement.

Analysis suggests an increasing tendency to exaggerate and polarize results.

Millions of scientific articles remain freely accessible despite copyright violations.

High-profile reports claiming an easy way to create pluripotent cells were flawed, Natureannounces.

New policy follows efforts by other journals to bolster standards of data analysis.

Change of journal does not convince critics that rat diseases were caused by genetically modified maize.

One in eight articles contain data-reporting mistakes that affect their conclusions.

Just 2.4% of citations from an immunology journal present disagreements with previous work.

Richard Price, the chief executive officer of academia.edu, explains his plans to shake up online peer-feedback.

Research identifies studies that defy usual citation patterns to enjoy a rich old age.

Detector teams at the Large Hadron Collider collaborated for a more precise estimate of the size of the Higgs boson.

Research community also split over how close the method is to being an option for preventing disease.

Analysis contradicts previous work that showed little connection between grant-review scores and subsequent research outcomes.

Manuscripts posted to preprint website tell a tale of increasing scepticism.

Reproducibility Initiative aims to speed up preclinical research.

Just five mutations may send H5N1 airborne.

Embryo results prompt editorial note in Science.

Critics raise questions about rush to publication.

First survey to quantify problem finds that junior faculty are more likely to be targeted.

Member of editorial board quits as editor defends publication.

Work by infamous AIDS contrarian passes peer review.

Alex's final experiments reveal a talent for numbers that was on a par with chimpanzees.

Conference proceedings removed from subscription databases after scientist reveals that they were computer-generated.

Whistle-blower’s study suggests informing authorities privately is less likely to lead to corrective action.

Analysis of science on social media service finds little correlation with standard measures of academic success.