Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

The conference billed itself as the first to feature all A.I.-generated research. Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images Should scientists use artificial intelligence to help conduct research or write up the ...

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Some companies are working to remedy the issue. Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by ...

Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been ...

The large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according ...

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 ...

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal ...

A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn. The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” ...

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 ...

Science, a top research journal, said there was no evidence of misconduct by researchers whose finding attracted heavy attention and scrutiny in social media’s early days. By Sarah Scoles Sarah Scoles ...