Some AI-assisted research papers are citing studies that do not exist, revealing how reference errors can slip through peer review.

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Now they’re being clogged with AI slop. Scientific publishing has always had its plumbing problems. Even before ChatGPT, ...

The best essay boils down to the strongest argument. So, if you find yourself struggling to come up with one, drop the ...

The objective of this short paper was to provide some advice on how to write a geoscience paper of international standard and to warn against some common pitfalls. It is focused on how to structure a ...

Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?

Hearing from critics is never easy, but Graham Neubig felt especially annoyed by his. Peer reviews for papers he’d submitted to an artificial-intelligence conference, the International Conference on ...

A farmer drives a tractor down a row in a green field and fertilizes with pesticides using a long attachment on the front of the tractor. More than 25 years after it published a study finding that use ...

Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper ...

A new report from OpenAI and a group of outside scientists shows how GPT-5, the company’s latest AI large language model (LLM), can help with research from black holes to cancer‑fighting cells to math ...

Artificial intelligence peer reviewers recommend the acceptance of unsound papers created entirely by AI more than 80% of the time, a new study has found. The authors of the analysis, posted Oct. 20 ...