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AI tool turns any paper into an ‘agent’ that can collaborate and answer complex queries

September 16, 2026

AI agents representing papers could foster cross-disciplinary collaboration. Credit: Getty A new artificial-intelligence tool quickly transforms a research…

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Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?

July 30, 2026

Key Insights Generative artificial intelligence has worsened a long-standing publish-or-perish problem in the academic community by making…

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July 24, 2026

The size of scientific research teams has increased steadily over time.Credit: twomeows/Getty Few papers in history have had…

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'Street Safari' by Alan Schaller Finds Humanity in Animals

July 16, 2026

London, 2025. | Photo by Alan Schaller Photographer Alan Schaller’s first book, Metropolis, explored the isolation of living…

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Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers

July 1, 2026

Credit: WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Cancer research articles with telltale signs of being produced by paper mills garner double the number…

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What’s behind China’s historically high counts of corresponding authors?

June 4, 2026

China’s previous evaluation system rewarded researchers who were listed as corresponding authors.Credit: Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock via Getty Researchers in…

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Why AI can’t be trusted to write scientific reviews

May 26, 2026

Artificial-intelligence tools are being touted as a means to conduct rapid reviews of scientific literature. At the London-based…

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Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited

May 21, 2026

Academic reviewers sometimes deliver the feedback that a scientific paper can be published, but with major revisions. Credit:…

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Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site

May 15, 2026

Analyses of research repositories are estimating the rates of hallucinated citations in research papers.Credit: patpitchaya/iStock via Getty The…

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Surge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers

May 9, 2026

The reference integrity audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers spans 3 years of scientific publishing.Credit: Aramyan/Getty An audit…

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Closure of China’s influential journal ranking leaves academics reeling — what will take its place?

April 24, 2026

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is no longer publishing its journal ranking. Credit: Cheng Xin/Getty The National Science…

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We need to talk about failure in science

April 24, 2026

You have full access to this article via your institution. A failed experiment shouldn’t mean the end of…