There are already bad actors in science, including "paper mills" churning out fake papers. This problem will only get worse when a scientific paper can be produced with US$15 and a vague initial ...

Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup of blue ...

AI-generated papers are on the rise, and concerns grow around authorship, AI plagiarism, and maintaining trust in ...

Science has a crummy-paper problem. This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems.

Real journals, fake science. Scientific journals are usually a source of reputable research and information, but recently thousands of fraudulent papers have been published in those journals and ...

Are science papers becoming too complex? By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus July 1, 2016. Reprints. APStock. S cience is hard.

Thicker notecards and photo paper, however, means the surface area simply won’t cut through much. But the closer a paper is to 65 micrometers wide, the more primed it is for a cut.

If you tried to guess off the top of your head what the most influential science papers of all time have been, you might think of things like Einstein showing that E = mc 2 or Watson and Crick’s ...

And that’s just for natural and medical science papers; the social sciences have it worse. In 1973, only one in 10 articles debuted in the big five’s pages; now it’s more than half.

On Thursday, Science issued retractions of two research papers it published from the outgoing president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who officially leaves his post Sept. 1.

It's a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...