Critical social media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers
Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act…
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Survey results suggest that peer reviewers are increasingly turning to AI.Credit: Panther Media Global/Alamy More than 50% of…
Science sleuths raise concerns about scores of bioengineering papers
Image sleuths noticed irregularities in figures from scores of papers co-authored by Ali Khademhosseini.Credit: Natali Mis/Getty In December…
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
A decade ago, we and others launched a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a…
Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why?
Are women more careful about their research than men? Or are they more risk-averse?Credit: Westend61/Getty Women are under-represented…
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations
Yoshua Bengio won the 2018 Turing Award for work on neural networks. Credit: The Canadian Press/Alamy Computer scientist…
Amazon’s Bestselling Herbal Guides Are Overrun by Fake Authors and AI
Herbalist books have been popular for centuries. This new AI-written generation is a disgrace. Image in Creative Commons.…
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark…
Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir set to shake up RFK Jr.s’ marriage
It’s a text and tell. Olivia Nuzzi — the former New York Magazine reporter who had a “digital…
The first eight | Nature Physics
Zapperi, S., Castellano, C., Colaiori, F. & Durin, G. Nat. Phys. 1, 46–49 (2005). Article Google Scholar Papanikolaou,…
why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too
The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have…
PRH Canada Waves the Flag
So far this year, Penguin Random House Canada is seeing an uptick in sales across multiple categories. CEO…