Category Archives: Science

60-year-old Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli led the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s group studying bat coronaviruses (prompting Science magazine to call her “Bat Woman”). In June of 2020 Scientific American described Zhengli as “distressed because stories… Continue reading Wuhan Lab Researcher Fully Sequences Genomes of Coronavirus Samples From 2004 to 2021, Finds No Close Relatives to SARS-CoV-2→

Nature: Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of Lo… Continue reading Digital Preservation Is Not Keeping Up With the Growth of Scholarly Knowledge→

India has struck a landmark $715 million deal with 30 global academic publishers to provide nationwide free access to nearly 13,000 research journals. The “One Nation One Subscription” initiative, launching January 2025, will benefit an estimated 18 mi… Continue reading India Takes Out Giant Nationwide Subscription To 13,000 Journals→

Major academic publishers including Elsevier and Springer Nature are grappling with a sophisticated new journal hijacking scam that precisely mimics their websites to deceive researchers.

The fraudulent operation, reported by Retraction Watch, has cl… Continue reading Journal Scam Targets Top Science Publishers→

A million and a half years ago, amid giant storks and the ancestors of antelopes, two extinct relatives of humans walked along the same muddy lakeshore in what is today northern Kenya, new research suggests. From a report: An excavation team uncovered … Continue reading Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another→