Careful use of a reference manager can help scientists to keep control of their to-read pile. Credit: Impact Photography/Shutterstock In the past 13 years, I have added 10,000 papers to the reference manager that I first used when I was a PhD student. The topics span Alzheimer’s disease, genetics, biostatistics, epidemiology, the philosophy of science
Paper introductions and discussions show more signs of AI use than results sections. Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty The use of artificial intelligence to write scientific papers could be much more prevalent than was previously thought. That’s the upshot of a study that estimates that almost nine out of ten papers published in December 2025 in a
Half a century ago, biochemists Georges Köhler and César Milstein kicked off a revolution in medicine. Their 1975 paper described how to mass-produce monoclonal antibodies: proteins that can be designed to recognize and bind specifically to almost any protein target1. These antibodies have since become a workhorse of biological research and the basis of blockbuster
Some researchers who use the LaTeX markup language for typesetting unknowingly make private information public.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature Nearly all of the nearly three million articles available on the arXiv preprint server contain details that the authors never wanted to share, according to a new study. The study, uploaded to arXiv in April and presented at