Authorea was born. An online platform where researchers can collaborate and write their findings including not only text and figures, but also all the important “products” that are currently lost upon publications: notebooks, data, analysis and code. This is changing publishing habits that go back hundreds of year. In fact, a large fraction of scientific articles are still published and disseminated as PDF, a format that provides a flat version of the research history and can not include the ever-increasing number of objects associated with modern research. Articles published today, are essentially indistinguishable from those published, say, by Galileo Galilei in the 1600s. At the time of the Italian astronomer, text and figures were enough to include the full description of the research and the data. But this is not the case anymore, due to the increasing complexity of science (and size of data being handled). The widely discussed lack of reproducibility of a large fraction of publications, undermines the scientific method altogether, and is primarily a result of this antiquated practice.