Peer review has met its match.

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 ...

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

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 ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the third of its kind ever known, astronomers at Michigan State ...

Scientific papers are for sharing your own original research work with other scientists or for reviewing the research conducted by others. As such, they are critical to the evolution of modern science ...

Artificial intelligence promises to accelerate scientific discovery and open new frontiers of inquiry. But new research from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...