A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

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 ...

In the coming years, AI is poised to transform the writing of scientific manuscripts, assist in reviewing them, and help editors select the most impactful papers. Artificial intelligence (AI), in ...

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 ...

Three cuttlefish and other marine and terrestrial animals. From an Arabic manuscript of Dioscurides' Book of Herbs. Credit: Leiden University Libraries. Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely ...

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 ...

A new online portal created by the British Library and Qatar Foundation features 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscripts centered on the history of science. Bink Hallum, Arabic Scientific ...

To help capture the scientific output of the recent 3rd International Conference on Mars Polar Science & Exploration, the conveners have made arrangements with the planetary science journal Icarus for ...

Draft scientific manuscripts are typically confidential. So, when Elana Fertig was asked to take a look at an in-development paper on a functional gene-annotation strategy, she expected to receive the ...

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Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers. By Katherine Kornei Polje, nappe, vuggy, psammite. Some scientists who study caves might ...