Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness and great regret,” according to Retraction Watch, ...

Scientific progress thrives on the open exchange of knowledge. Yet new Michigan State University research reveals a significant oversight in some academic publishing that could limit access for ...

Over the last decades, there has been an inflation in the number of new scientific journals, and, from a general point of view, this can be considered as an untoward development. Not infrequently, ...

A new study of British Wrens has provided new insights into the inner workings of ‘island syndromes’, according to research led by the University of Birmingham. The paper, published in the ...