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‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars 0

According to Bishop, most people involved in review mills are seeking to boost their citation numbers. These guide university decisions around hiring, promotions and tenure, and influence university rankings and funding decisions. The more that citation numbers are used as a metric of academic success, “the more people will try to game the citations”, she

The secret relationships that govern life on Earth 0
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- August 3, 2026
Hidden Creatures: Luscious Leeches, Bashful Botflies, and the Wondrous, History-Shaping World of Parasites Dino Martins Knopf (2026) Togetherness: How Symbiosis Can Change the Way We Understand Our World, Ourselves and Our Future Rowan Hooper Fern (2026) Humans often fancy that we are independent creatures, living sealed off from other species. Yet, that false sense of
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How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans 0
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- August 3, 2026
Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor, was seized by troops in 1532 during the Spanish Conquest, but smallpox had already devastated the Inca Empire around 1524–1528.Credit: Florilegius/Alamy More than 400 years ago, two people living in modern day Chile died while infected with the smallpox virus. Viral DNA found in their mummified remains has now yielded
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Nursing babies spit backwash into the breast—and that’s a good thing 0
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- August 3, 2026
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