The annual Farmer's Almanac, which provided readers with weather predictions and tips for cooking, gardening, and home medical remedies, will cease publication in 2026 and its website will shut down in December of that y...

(Image: Julius T. Csotonyi/Royal Tyrrell Museum)This may be a risky proposal approach, as it assumes that someone other than the editor and peer reviewers will actually read the article--especially the notes. But for pal...

(Photo: Gustav Mårtensson)The men pictured above are researchers at Karolinska Institutet, a medical school in Sweden. For a decade, they've been locked in a fierce competition with each other. Their goal is to quo...

(Science vs. Magic t-shirt now on sale at the NeatoShop)2 years ago, we learned that a scholarly journal of mathematics had published an article that was computer-generated gibberish without any mathematical meaning. The...

Dan Lunt is a climate scientist at Bristol Univers...  ...formed by a rain shadow.It’s a fun idea for publishing and a sure way to get public attention. But Radag...

(Photo: Philbin 'Stache Bear now on sale at the NeatoShop)For its April Fools’ Day issue in 1972, the scholarly journal Veterinary Record published an article describing the discovery of a new species of bear. The...

Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to des...  ...sn’t brazen enough for his taste. A former publishing exec who’d cut his teeth running imprints f...  ...or, Penguin Books founder Allen Lane had started publishing...

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Is math not your strongest subject? Don't let that...  ...let that hold you back when it comes to scholarly publishing . Just shove some complex-looking mathematical exp...

One of publishing 's best-kept secrets is out.All rejection letters...