With pandemic restrictions lifting, many researchers are cautiously returning to work.

Spectrum reviewed more than 35,000 journal articles and nearly 6,700 grants to home in on a highly interconnected network of 150 scientists who are advancing autism research through collaboration.

As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts researchers’ working lives, the academic journals that publish their work are adjusting too.

Over the past decade, biologists have increasingly been posting their research results on preprint servers, ahead of the results’ publication in traditional scientific journals.

Envisioned as bioRxiv’s clinical cousin, the new preprint server medRxiv hosts unpublished manuscripts describing original medical research.

Data analysis can improve the vetting of scientific papers, but first publishers must agree to make the information public.