When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paper is a ubiquitous part of everyday life, but how is it made, and where did it originate?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Businesses use paper. Organizations in every vertical have ...

In the old days of public-sector technology, it was known as "paving the cow path." A computer system would be dropped into an agency, turned on and the same number of workers would do the same ...

Although eco-minded people do send their discarded paper off to be recycled, the recycling process isn't entirely environmentally-friendly – it generally requires a lot of power, and incorporates ...

Adam Levy delves into the article of the future, examining the rise of lay summaries, the pros and cons of preprint servers, and how peer review is being crowd-sourced and opened up. Manuscripts are ...