Should scientists use artificial intelligence to help conduct research or write up the results? Most publishers prohibit ...
Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies.
Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of a paper on cancer research that was eventually retracted. Amy Sacka, ...
A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...
The industrial sector contributes about 25% of global carbon dioxide emissions, but there has not been enough study on how ...
Feedback delights in a 2018 paper that takes care to warn us it reveals “nothing like super interesting”, and embarks on a ...
(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific ...
The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is distancing itself from a headline-making paper about AI’s purported ability to accelerate the speed of science. Toner-Rodgers’ work even earned ...