A giant step for science: JRSM welcomes preprints in medical science

Preprints and Cardiovascular Science: Prescient or Premature?

Medical journals currently find themselves in the throes of 2 powerful trends: (1) a growing concern for the irreproducibility of scientific reports, and (2) a rising imperative to accelerate dissemination of new knowledge in the digital era. Without question, the individual merit of tackling each issue is readily apparent. Irreproducibility of scientific reports is surprisingly common and cont...

The Science Case for STEP

STEP (the Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle) will advance experimental limits on violations of Einstein’s equivalence principle (EP) from their present sensitivity of 2 parts in 10 to 1 part in 10 through multiple comparison of the motions of four pairs of test masses of different compositions in an earth-orbiting drag-free satellite. Dimensional arguments suggest that violations, if ...

Computer Science Meets Medical Science

In the past 20–30 years at least two technical advances have made quantification in pathology at a large scale possible. At the time the computing power of affordable computers increased, interest to deploy tasks emerged that were previously very laborious to perform. Combined with digital camera systems, many new possibilities became available. Examples of such measurements that were previousl...

One small leap for the jumping spider but a giant step for vision science.

Weasels may be cunning, we might admire the intelligence of dogs and cats, but we can be forgiven for expecting the jumping spider, a diminutive predator with a brain not much bigger than a poppy seed, to be one of Descartes’ automatons. Yet, jumping spiders, also known as salticids, alternate between entertaining and alarming us by planning prey-capture tactics ahead of time, adjusting their h...

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