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Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint ...

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Harvard dismisses tenured professor who built career studying honesty, then published fabricated data. How smart leaders can better evaluate behavioral science claims.

President Donald Trump’s orders haven’t targeted research involving evolution, but the authors’ unease about publishing reflects uncertainty in the science world.

‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.

Mr. Piller is an investigative journalist for Science. This essay is adapted from his upcoming book, “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.” Jan. 24, 2025 ...

AI-generated papers are infiltrating Google Scholar, raising concerns over academic integrity and the spread of misleading research in the scientific community.

Google's "Deep Research" is an AI research service that can scan dozens of websites in minutes and write a comprehensive paper on the subject of your choice using Google Gemini.

And there are upsides to special issues: they can be valuable ways for scientists to aggregate information from different research communities, for example, said Hannah Hope, who leads open ...