A story on gender inequity in scientific research industries. A deep dive into the daily rhythms of the immune system. A look at vaccine effectiveness for Covid-19 variants. These are a few examples ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

News coverage of recent medical research often comes with a caveat that, before the pandemic, would have baffled many physicians — let alone other readers: “This study was posted on a preprint server ...

Academic research moves at a famously sluggish pace. It can often take well over a year between the time a paper is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, and when that article is published. And then, ...

What started in 1989 as an e-mail list for a few dozen string theorists has now grown to a collection of more than two million papers—and the central hub for physicists, astronomers, computer ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Max Crispin had been a little wary of preprints. He’d worked with collaborators who submitted their joint work to preprint servers, which allow public access to papers ...

4 December 2023 – Review Commons, a platform dedicated to the peer review of preprints, announces the expansion of its family of affiliate journals to include publications from three additional ...

A site co-founded by two Yale researchers for sharing preliminary medical research called medRxiv (pronounced “med archive”) has become a leading source of scientific discovery related to the COVID-19 ...

A significant difference between COVID-19 and past pandemics—even the 2009 outbreak of H1N1—has been the speed with which information on the disease has spread. Partly, that’s down to social media, as ...

Jonathon Alexis Coates is affiliated with preLights (a preprint highlighting service) and ASAPbio (a nonprofit promoting innovation and transparency in life sciences communication). Since the first ...