The New York Times today reported that researchers writing for the journal, Nature, found that There are now thousands of fake open-access journals, about as many as legitimate ones. The authors created a fake 'Editor" that they then applied to numerous 'scientific journals.' The applicant’s nom de plume was not [...]
For anyone who has had the great pleasure of reading Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," expect something very special when Dr. Mukherjee's next book, " The Gene: An Intimate History," is published in the Spring. Writing in the March 28, 2016 [...]
A prominent Stanford neuroscientist and psychiatrist, and his colleagues gives some clues about what makes some people risk-averse and others risk-taking. Answers could have implications for how to treat, curb or prevent destructively risky behavior, like pathological gambling or drug addiction.. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reports [...]