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Merck and Elsevier Create "Peer-Reviewed" Advertorial

Pill Jars Is the big yellow one for my heart or my erectile dysfunction? courtesy of erix!, via Flickr.comIt seems as though pharmaceutical giant Merck (best known for the deadly painkiller Vioxx),...

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NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites, Controversy Ensues

Alien Microbe Fossils? This tube, found in a meteorite that fell to Earth in 1864, is similar in size and shape to the giant bacterium Titanospirillum velox. A NASA astrobiologist claims it is the...

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Now Online: The Royal Society's 350-Year-Long Archive

Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday, Nov. 1831 Working with direct current and magnets, Michael Faraday established the basis for our understanding of electromagnetism. The paper...

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5 Tips For Scientists On How To Not Write Like Scientists

Dusty Academic Journals Mace Ojala via Flickr Reading through scientific papers can be a terrifying experience, and not just because of the jargon. Take, for example, this string of words: "We...

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Merck and Elsevier Create "Peer-Reviewed" Advertorial

It seems as though pharmaceutical giant Merck (best known for the deadly painkiller Vioxx), has teamed up with science publishing titan Elsevier (who, not long ago, got…

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NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites, Controversy Ensues

Did a NASA scientist find fossilized alien microbes embedded in a 146-year-old meteorite? As this claim emerged over the weekend, the answer from the scientific community so…

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Now Online: The Royal Society's 350-Year-Long Archive

On many a college campus are inscribed somewhere or other the words of Isaac Newton, who in 1676 said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."…

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5 Tips For Scientists On How To Not Write Like Scientists

Reading through scientific papers can be a terrifying experience, and not just because of the jargon. Take, for example, this string of words: "We classified injuries as…

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