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In 2007, scientists unraveled the DNA of the rhesus macaque

A new commentary blasts claims about Homo naledi featured in Netflix's "Unknown: Cave of Bones."

https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/1712947590294306976 Science reports: Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of the prominent open-access journal eLife and longtime critic of traditional journals, says he is losing that job for publicly endorsing a satirical article that criticized people dying in Gaza for not condemning the recent attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas. "I…

On October 24, Michael Eisen was fired as the Editor-in-Chief of the prominent open access journal eLife.

‘They’re going to alienate and have alienated a huge part of the community: people who don’t think it’s bad to express political opinions that not everybody agrees with,’ Michael Eisen said after sacking

Scientific publishing is necessary for career success, but the current publishing model extracts a steep cost. We need new alternatives that deviate from marginal changes, which won’t dislodge existing bad research-publishing practices. India’s science academies can also agree on a research evaluation metric that journals and funders can use when…

Did our long-lost hominin cousins venture deep underground to dig graves for their dead, or is there still a mystery lurking in Rising Star Cave?

Honey bees have to balance effort, risk, and reward while making quick and accurate judgements of which blooms are most likely to provide food for their hive. According to new research published in the journal eLife, millions of years of evolution have evolved honey bees to make quick decisions and…

Baby marmosets begin practicing the face and mouth movements necessary to call their family for help before they are born, shows a study published in the journal eLife. This finding may also apply to humans, as ultrasounds in the third trimester of pregnancy have shown developing humans in the womb…