Sir Isaac Newton’s handwritten notes and calculations regarding the longitudinal positions of stars and comets, ideas later formalized in his iconic work, Principia ($118,750). A three-page scientific ...

Preprint servers have existed for decades, but the fight against the coronavirus has seen their use soar. They’re changing how science is done—but need important guardrails. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...

Bidders at an auction in Paris are hoping to get their hands on a scientific manuscript which details a key stage in the development of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The document is ...

Academic publishing should focus less on the scientific manuscript and more on digital storage and access, say Mark Gerstein, a professor of biomedical informatics at Yale University, and Michael ...

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering evidence of trade networks, animal husbandry, medical and ritual practices, ...

Scientific communication is often overlooked when training aspiring new scientists. After all, science has a reputation for dealing in data rather than opinions or arguments. However, as the ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as “The Great Geometer”, have survived in an Arabic manuscript kept ...

As part of its commitment to improving transparency in scientific publishing, Open Access science company DeSci Labs has released its new novelty scores feature. This is the first time an objective ...

Significance: Few scientific treatises in history had such a profound public impact as Charles Darwin's publication on November 24, 1859 of his On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, ...