Many women scientists are staying silent online—and it could be costing them professionally. A new University of Michigan ...

Efforts have been underway for years to improve the replicability of research studies, but some are skeptical of the US government’s motivations to help ...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA Report featured several seemingly fake studies and incorrect attributions.

A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist.

The most-cited scientific paper of the 21st century was written by four Chinese researchers in 2016, and it is on track to become the most-cited paper of all time, according to an analysis by ...

What is the most highly cited paper in the scientific literature? Chances are slim that most researchers know the answer. It turns out to be a 1951 publication in the Journal of Biological ...

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China is producing twice as many research papers as the US on chip design and fabrication, laying the foundation for a possible leadership role in next-generation semiconductor technology ...

You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.

Now, OpenAI’s new “Deep Research” tool seems perfectly designed to help students fake their way through a term paper unless asked to cite sources that don’t include Wikipedia.