News tagged with journal papers

Research team uses nanoparticles to make paper waterproof and magnetic

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, led by Roberto Cingolani, have devised a means for connecting cellulose fibers in ordinary paper with nanoparticles resulting in new desired properties, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Editor of Remote Sensing journal resigns citing review mistakes on climate model paper

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wolfgang Wagner, editor of the journal Remote Sensing, has resigned from his post after an internal review revealed that a paper published in his journal by climatic scientists Roy Spencer an ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 20 | with audio podcast report

Libel case against the scientific journal Nature begins

(PhysOrg.com) -- The British science journal Nature, which publishes both purely academic papers and editorial pieces, is being sued in a British court by a former editor of the theoretical physics journal Chaos, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

US scientists significantly more likely to publish fake research

US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 46 | with audio podcast

Scientists find a new species of fungus -- in a wasp nest

While some researchers look for new species in such exotic places as the deep sea, tropical regions, or extreme environments, a team headed by Tufts researchers turned their attention towards nests of an invasive ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Online tools are increasing the speed at which scientists make discoveries

Not all research papers receive their own hashtag on Twitter. But #arseniclife (as it was dubbed in tweets) was no ordinary paper.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Plagiarism sleuths tackle full-text biomedical articles

In scientific publishing, how much reuse of text is too much? Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and collaborators have shown that a computer-based text-searching tool is capable of unearthing ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Pressure for positive results puts science under threat, study shows

Scientific research may be in decline across the globe because of growing pressures to report only positive results, new analysis suggests.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Online communication boosts lying and E-mail is the medium that contains the most lies: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers finds that communication using computers for instant messaging and e-mail increases lying compared to face-to-face conversations, and that e-mail ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nanotechnology research could aid paper exports

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Victoria University, New Zealand, have discovered ground-breaking new ways to capitalise on New Zealand's increasingly valuable paper export markets using nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0