Again and again, Washington State University professor Mesut Cicek and his colleagues fed hypotheses from scientific papers ...

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

For scientists, it is always a challenging task to keep up with thousands of scientific research papers. Researchers are ...

Science journalist Matt Kaplan said scientists and journalists should be more transparent about how research works during a Thursday evening book talk at Harvard.

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional materials. Materials scientists are therefore working to develop and improve new ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I first published this post on December 5, ...

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 ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

To stay up to date and work forward in their fields, scientists must have at their fingertips and in their minds thousands of published studies. Large language models (LLMs) show promise as a tool for ...

George R.R. Martin recently made the news because he co-wrote a scientific paper. While it’s rare for someone from the arts to get their name on a research paper, it’s not unheard of. Several familiar ...