The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools, such as ChatGPT and Bard, has significantly impacted assessment practices in higher education institutions (HEIs) globally.
In a surprising turn of events on April 13, 2022, the Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva faced explosions in the Black Sea, more than 100 kilometers south of Odesa, Ukraine. Despite…
Meta, the social media giant, has reported progress in its efforts to thwart coordinated disinformation campaigns fueled by generative AI, amidst growing concerns about the technology's…
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Both the European Union and NATO were established after the Second World War with a similar purpose – to help maintain peace through cooperation between states. The unbearable inhumanity…
Neurosurgical Review has begun retracting scores of commentaries and letters to the editor after getting inundated by AI-generated manuscripts. At the top of the affiliations list: Saveetha…
Preprints are open and accessible scientific manuscript or report that is shared publicly, through a preprint server, before being submitted to a journal. The value and importance of…
AI Scientist’, created by a team at Tokyo company Sakana AI and at academic labs in Canada and the United Kingdom, performs the full cycle of research from reading the existing literature…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something a federal judge recently told the National…
Academic institutions and researchers are focused on a very narrow set of metrics for success. These come down to authorship on a publication being the most valued currency in academia…
Recently, LinkedIn announced its Hiring Assistant, an artificial intelligence "agent" that performs the most repetitious parts of recruiters' jobs—including interacting with job…
In a bid to counter the misuse of scientific research in perpetuating racial stereotypes, anthropologists convened at the annual meeting of the American Association of Biological…
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the government can continue communicating with researchers and social media platforms to reduce misinformation on subjects such as elections and…
Prof Rajeev Kumar, who taught at the School of Computer and Systems Sciences accuses one Om Prakash, his former PhD mentee of stealing his research and reproducing it in an independent…
A newly devised ‘brain clock’ can determine whether a person’s brain is ageing faster than their chronological age would suggest1. Brains age faster in…
A Massachusetts judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by honesty researcher Francesca Gino against three data sleuths who alleged that several of her publications contained falsified data.
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense policy bill that would prohibit the Department of Defense (DOD) from funding any U.S. university that has a research…
Tara Hudiburg worries that she may be “out of her league” in vying for the most lucrative competitive grant the National Science Foundation (NSF) has ever awarded. But the forest…
In a bid to address growing concerns that machines are becoming more cost-effective than human labor, the creative industries in the UK are pushing for a comprehensive revamp of the…
Researchers at MIT and other institutions have successfully addressed the challenge of integrating fragile two-dimensional (2D) materials into electronic devices, paving the way for…
CRISPR Therapy Approved for Sickle Cell: The UK has approved a groundbreaking CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. The therapy involves using CRISPR to turn…
Researchers Investigating Misinformation and Election Integrity Under Fire
Kate Starbird, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, witnessed a surge in misinformation during…
In the 2016 science fiction movie "Arrival," a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as…
Sage has retracted 416 articles from the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which had a mass retraction of over 450 papers last August. Before the mass retraction last year…
In a groundbreaking move towards fostering innovation and economic growth, the United States has introduced 10 "Innovation Engines" under an unprecedented program called Regional Innovation…
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton joined UChicago President Paul Alivisatos and University Librarian and Dean of the University Library Torsten Reimer for the…
MSCA COFUND 2023. COFUND supports new or existing doctoral programmes and postdoctoral fellowship schemes. The aim of the action is to promote the best practices of the MSCA, including…
What changes would you make if a summer science camp you’ve run for 64 years with little publicity received a $200 million windfall? That’s the enviable task facing the…
In a groundbreaking development, a collaborative research team led by experts from KAIST and UCSD has introduced DeepECtransformer, an artificial intelligence designed to predict enzyme…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has failed to protect scientists and support staff working in Antarctica from sexual harassment and has been lax in supervising the company handling…
The National Science Foundation (NSF), already battered by White House directives and staff reductions, is plunging into deeper turmoil. According to sources who requested anonymity for…
Researchers are making significant strides in developing a rapid and accurate venom detection test, akin to a "pregnancy test," that could revolutionize snakebite treatment. Led by…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has failed to protect scientists and support staff working in Antarctica from sexual harassment and has been lax in supervising the company handling…
COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND—Last week, at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) facility here, more than 100 climate scientists, many of them federal employees, gathered for…
A groundbreaking study from Hebrew University, led by Ph.D. student Kinneret Endevelt and supervised by Dr. Roni Porat and Prof. Eran Halperin, reveals a novel approach to closing the…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared his forecast on the future of artificial intelligence (AI), stating that AI will become a transformative technology for everyone in the next five…
The past few years have seen a groundswell of concern from researchers about how race, a social construct not based in biology, is misused in biomedicine. The worries have already prompted…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, ongoing for nearly two years, has not only caused visible destruction to buildings but has also taken a toll on the country's buried archaeological sites.
Thanks to CRISPR and related gene-editing techniques, scientists are getting better and better at making small changes to our DNA to treat certain diseases. But they are still working out…
A web of steel girders is rising from the flattened summit of Cerro Armazones, 3000 meters above sea level in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The dome it will support will be vast—with a…
In the 1920s, Jesuit priest Antoine Poidebard spotted the angular outlines of what he suspected were ancient Roman forts while flying over the Syrian desert in a biplane. In what was one of…
Scientists have discovered dimethyl sulfide (DMS), a molecule thought to have only living sources, on a cold, lifeless comet. The finding calls into question the molecule’s usefulness as…
Plans to establish a sprawling cynomolgus macaque breeding facility in Bainbridge, Georgia, have ignited a fierce debate, pitting scientific advancement against concerns over animal welfare…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to David Baker from the University of Washington "for computational protein design," and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from Google…
Here's what science blogger Pat Thomson advises when she complains about her inability to find literature that is relevant to their research.
«A lack of literature is very…
Delve into world university ranking metrics and indicators and learn strategies to improve your standing.
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We all need sleep, but no one really knows why. For the past 10 years, a prevailing theory has been that a key function of sleep is to wash waste products and toxins from the…
When seeking answers from ChatGPT, there is a potential pitfall — the model may provide entirely fictional "facts" that, while sounding credible, are fabricated. A recent incident…
When Russia invaded his home country in February 2022, neuroscientist Sergiy Sylantyev was leading a research programme at the University of Aberdeen, UK, investigating chemical signalling…
An extensive 24-year analysis of scholarly data indicates that academics in 12 countries are significantly increasing self-citations, pointing to potential policy-driven incentives.
Amidst the AI science boom driven by vast datasets, scientists are raising cautionary flags about the quality and reliability of results. While the publication of papers on AI and machine…
As scientific breakthroughs go, the one announced last March by a team from the University of Rochester was especially eye-opening. Led by physicist/engineer Ranga P. Dias, they reported in…
ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Thursday released a new series of artificial intelligence models designed to spend more time thinking—in hopes that generative AI chatbots provide more accurate…
In a scientific quest that spans a quarter of a century, physicist Juan Maldacena introduced the AdS/CFT correspondence—a captivating holographic link between gravity in a…
When you visit a hospital, artificial intelligence (AI) models can assist doctors by analyzing medical images or predicting patient outcomes based on historical data. If you apply…
A recent image of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), hints at the presence of a jet emanating from its core. Unlike the dramatic jets…
In relation to the escalating war situation in Ukraine, the Government of Estonia fully supports the reception of war refugees in Estonia.
At the 28 February meeting, Minister Liina…
An article by Genentech scientists received an extensive correction in January, 2025 for multiple instances of image duplications after comments on PubPeer spurred the authors to review the…
A paper from Finland in a controversial area of vaccine research was peer reviewed and provisionally accepted. At the revision stage, the journal received a letter from a researcher based…
Connecting multiple AIs together and putting them in the body of a robot, similar to Star Wars' C-3PO or R2-D2, is the most likely way AI will become as intelligent as humans, according to…
David Bau, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, highlights the complexities of modern computer systems. After two decades as a software engineer, Bau…
Anna Hughes advises UKRI-funded researchers on how to prepare their work in 10 simple steps
From 1 January 2024, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s new open access…
Buenos Aires, Argentina – In the midst of an economic crisis and political changes, protests have erupted at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina…
All sources in the list of references must be formatted according to a certain standard (the formatting standard is usually specified by the publisher or editorial office to which you send…
A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT, according to a study published on 6 November in Cell Reports Physical Science. The…
For sustainability-minded fashionistas, materials made by fast-growing, eco-friendly bacteria offer an appealing alternative to leather or faux plastic replacements such as “pleather.”
OpenAI's ChatGPT has proven to be an incredibly powerful and engaging tool since its launch in November 2022. However, its knowledge was limited to information available up to September…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved since its inception in the 1960s, experiencing notable resurgence in recent years with increased computing capabilities and data availability.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for discoveries enabling the creation of a new kind of vaccine, including…
Turkey’s researchers are calling for the abolition of a government-run council that they say has too much control over the nation’s universities, ahead of presidential and parliamentary…
If you're struggling to find the time to write a piece, try the fast-paced "pomodor" method from Olivia Burgess, a lecturer at Colorado State University Global:
"The original pomodoro…
Protests over the war in Gaza have divided university campuses across the United States in recent months. Now, university leaders are preparing to testify before the US Congress about their…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this…
BROOMFIELD, COLORADO—The core of this quantum computer looks familiar enough: a silicon chip the size of a stamp. But the resemblance to your laptop ends there. The chip, cocooned within…
Anna Lysyanskaya, the distinguished James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, is set to lead an online mini-course on the fundamentals of cryptography.
Several California universities, in collaboration with Wiley, have established a landmark open access agreement, marking a significant step in advancing open access initiatives in the…
Researchers have coaxed human stem cells to form early-stage human kidneys in pigs—the first time a human organ has been produced in another animal. The advance, stem cell researchers…
Retraction Watch, the influential website and database that tracks retractions in scholarly literature, is joining forces with another publishing nonprofit, Crossref, in hopes of helping…
Elsevier has released an openly accessible database showcasing the most cited researchers. This database provides standardized information about citations, Hirsch index, h-index with…
The smell in the laboratory was new. It was, in the language of the business, tenacious: for more than a week, the odour clung to the paper on which it had been blotted.
To researcher Alex…
In an Imperial College London study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from playtime. The researchers say the study, which used a virtual ball game,
Edward R. Martin Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, sent a list of questions to CHEST Editor-in-Chief Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, of the Cleveland Clinic, asking how the journal…
One of the referees of journal has brought to our attention a potential case of plagiarism. The referee feels that the a manuscript submitted to journal, representing a retrospective study…
The image of a researcher working in isolation is far from reality. Research is inherently collaborative, built on the continuous exchange of knowledge within the scientific community.
The University of Oxford has retained the number one spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for a ninth year in a row, but the reputation of the…
In response to growing concerns over online privacy, governments are enacting legislation such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California's Consumer…
In a groundbreaking development, researchers at Northwestern University have introduced a cutting-edge miniature rodent stereo illumination VR (iMRSIV) system, revolutionizing neuroscience…
The antifungal Amphotericin B (AmB) is an old and effective drug—it saved many COVID-19 patients whose compromised immune systems failed to stop secondary fungal infections. But it…
Research integrity, synonymous with good research practice, embodies the principles and standards that underpin trustworthy and credible research at every stage of its lifecycle.
Considerable study has been done on methane oxidation to yield methanol, used in producing valuable substances like formaldehyde, dimethyl ether, and more. Yet, methane remains the most…
Experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, known as hyperemesis gravidarum, affects about 2% of pregnant individuals and poses significant health risks for both parent and…
I was thrilled to have my proposal for the Decolonisation issue of Museum International accepted – until my first draft came back with comments and suggestions for edits that, in my…
1 June, Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets gave a speech at a Digital Public Goods Alliance meeting at the UN. In her speech, the minister underlined the importance of digitalisation,
A pledge by the United Kingdom’s Conservative government to “kick woke ideology out of science” has stirred controversy among many scientists. In recent remarks, the top…
In 2012, when Syrian government forces started bombing the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor early in the country’s civil war, conservation biologist Ahmad Aidek barely managed to escape his…
In the realm of diagnosing rare Mendelian disorders, where the task is often laborious and time-consuming, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine are pioneering a more efficient approach…
In the realm of scholarly research, the absence of purpose-built databases for the evaluation and measurement of research has led to a significant disconnect in the academic world. This…
The letter to the editor, published in December 2024 in Intensive Care Medicine, explored ways AI could help clinicians monitor blood circulation in patients in intensive care units. The…
A groundbreaking study published in Science Translational Medicine unveils a promising new antibody that could revolutionize the treatment of deadly snakebites worldwide. Led by Nicholas…
When the Euclid space telescope blasts off from Cape Canaveral in Florida early next month, it will embark on an unprecedented effort to survey 1 billion galaxies—and perhaps solve…
Thorough preparation of your journal's website and publishing policies is crucial to enhance the likelihood of inclusion in prestigious resources like Scopus and Web of Science.
Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink has implanted a brain–computer interface (BCI) in a second person. The company could implant eight more of the devices this year, Musk…
The U.S. research community is holding its breath after the abrupt collapse last night of a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown on 21 December. If Congress fails to reach an…
Researchers from MIT have unveiled a groundbreaking 3D-printable tissue adhesive that promises unparalleled tissue adhesion, rapid sealing abilities across diverse surgical scenarios, and a…
Erja Moore, an independent researcher based in Finland, came across the article published in April in the Journal of Academic Ethics while looking into a whistleblowing case in that…
The announcement of the artificial intelligence researchers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as this year's Nobel laureates in physics spurred celebration and consternation&n…
Rising tensions between the United States and China could derail the renewal of a 44-year-old agreement on scientific cooperation between the two countries.
Last week, U.S. President Joe…
BOSTON—By the time biologist Emma Courtney met bioinformatician J. P. Flores in person here last week at the annual conference of AAAS (publisher of Science), they’d already bonded…
Physics and astronomy researchers in the United Kingdom have reacted with alarm to news that key government funding for particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy will be slashed by…
Some scientists and legislators might have hoped this morning’s U.S. congressional hearing on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic would move beyond partisan politics and seriously…
Boosting the citation rate and overall impact of your journal is crucial, and one effective strategy is to promote scientific articles across various platforms. When articles from your…
Business leaders are increasingly worried about AI's disruptive effects on the future of work. Many workers fear job losses, but their anxiety also stems from the idea of AI…
An associate professor at Moscow’s Sechenov University has embedded himself in an Iran-Iraq-linked publication scheme involving top academic journals in Europe and the U.S., creating what…
In the pursuit of sharper celestial vision, astronomers are turning to quantum technologies to revolutionize the capabilities of telescopes. With the impending completion of the Extremely…
Science issues took a back seat to the economy, immigration and national security during the first — and perhaps only — debate between US presidential candidates Kamala…
Before we get to the adventures of Felis domesticus scholasticus promised by the title, some important background.
A couple of weeks ago, Nick Wise showed me an…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform research and healthcare, yet adoption of AI for work use remains low as does use of even the most popular AI platforms like Bard and…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald…
Two decades ago, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin took their penchant for pranks to a new level by unveiling something that seemed too good to be true on April Fool's Day.
Coral reefs, bastions of marine biodiversity because of the abundant fish, invertebrates, and algae they support, are also home to Earth’s greatest microbial diversity, according to a new…
In the wake of deep cuts in foreign assistance made by President Donald Trump’s administration, at least 25 countries expect to increase their domestic budgets for efforts to treat and…
SINGAPORE – The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is investigating one of its professors following online claims that he had plagiarised a former student’s final-year project in…
Recreating major pathological features of Parkinson’s disease in a lab-grown, human mini- brain will help researchers to explore new treatments.
This is the first time that Lewy…
From accusations that led Harvard University’s president to resign in January, to revelations in February of plagiarized text in peer-review reports, the academic world has been…
Transitioning from academia to industry can be daunting, especially when it feels like your CV is disappearing into a black hole. Nature spoke with three experts who shared valuable…
IPSWICH, Mass. — September 21, 2023 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), a leading provider of online research content and search technologies, is embracing the power of…
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About a month after our Journal A published a Paper X, the journal received emails from readers that Paper X was very similar to a Paper Y that had just been published by another…
Genetically modified cells known as chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells have become potent cancer fighters, and scientists are now studying them as treatments for autoimmune…
In a groundbreaking development, researchers at the University of Michigan have uncovered a novel class of 2D materials capable of exhibiting a stable charge density wave at room…
Recent legislation in Florida, barring the employment of graduate students and postdocs from certain countries without special permission, is stirring controversy and disrupting research…
The Letten Prize is an international prize, awarded to a young researcher who conducts research aimed at addressing global challenges within the fields of health, development, environment…
Two esteemed hospitals in the midwestern United States are a 5-hour drive apart, but when it comes to how they’re prescribing new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, they might as well be on…
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Journal A published a paper 1. After 2 years the Editor of Journal A was contacted by a reader, who expressed his doubts as to the integrity of one of the authors. The reader…
Keep working on it. That’s the reaction of U.S. science watchdog groups to the first attempts by federal health agencies to flesh out a promise by President Joe Biden to restore trust in…
For symptoms like a runny nose and a cough, some might think it's a common cold. It doesn't warrant a doctor's visit, so they turn to Google and WebMD for additional reassurance. Now, with…
The two Science articles, "Mitosis inhibits DNA double-strand break repair to guard against telomere fusions"from 2014, and"Orchestration of the DNA-damage response by the RNF8 ubiquitin…
As of August 1, a total of 558 young people submitted applications for admission to the Freedom School. In August, applications for admission to the gymnasium will continue and…
In a significant milestone for space exploration, SpaceX's Starship rocket embarked on its third full test flight today, marking a remarkable leap forward in space travel technology.
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Editor A wrote to editor B, indicating that one of the reviewers of a paper submitted to Journal A contained material that had been submitted at about the same time to Journal B.
In an unprecedented milestone, Nature magazine has named ChatGPT, a robot with the ability to answer questions and hold intelligent conversations, as its Scientist of the Year. Each…
According to the results of a recent study, Tallinn's green areas are home to several hundred foxes, deer and hares as well as up to 50 moose. What makes the Estonian capital unique in…
On 11 July, in a live broadcast from the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled the first image from what he called a “miraculous” new space telescope. Along with millions of…
Virtual bidding opened today on a trove of science-history treasures from the estate of Microsoft mogul Paul Allen. Some of the most prized pieces will be auctioned live next…
The 3,000+ journals in the Springer Nature portfolio published over 482,000 articles in 2024, according to data published this week on a new research integrity page on the company’s…
A chemist at a university in Pakistan found a surprise when he opened an alert from ResearchGate on a newly published paper on a topic related to his own work. When Muhammad Kashif, a…
Rebuttal articles are a vital part of the scientific publishing process, since they help weed out mistakes made by other researchers, usually honest errors, but sometimes not. But anyone…
In a decision that will shape the future of astronomy in the United States, the National Science Board (NSB) has announced funding for just one of the proposed giant ground-based…
Recent analysis of decades-old data from the Apollo missions has unveiled a surprising revelation: the Moon is far more seismically active than previously believed. By reexamining archival…
“India is on the Moon!” declared Sreedhara Somanath, chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), today to a packed mission control room. At 6:04 p.m. local time, the…
The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers. More than…
The paper claims the phase III clinical trial published October 29, 2025 included over 400 patients in Shiraz, Iran, and tested whether stem cell therapy lowers the risk of heart failure…
New Zealand’s science infrastructure is in for a major shake-up, with key research institutes reorganized and a greater focus on commercialization. Some researchers are cautiously…
Estonian Labour Inspectorate put together an information sheet for refugees arriving from Ukraine and seeking for work. The sheet contains information about the most important regarding…
Utah’s Great Salt Lake may dry up within 5 yearsNorth America’s largest saline lake could be gone by 2028 if water inflows are not restored, researchers warned last week. The Great Salt…
On 7 March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a tweet alerting its 5.4 million followers about a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico. The update…
The American Society For Testing And Materials (ASTM) International started an investigation into its Journal of Testing and Evaluation after an ASTM vendor noticed some “irregular…
Gaming with just your thoughts may no longer be a distant dream, thanks to a groundbreaking universal brain-computer interface developed by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.
On January 25, 2023, as part of the project "Stairway to Excellence: Strengthening an Effective and Reliable Higher Education System in Ukraine", a delegation from the Ministry of Education…
It seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime for AM, a young Indian graduate student who loved studying reptiles. In December 2015, she began fieldwork for her master’s thesis at a…
On 12 October, for the fourth time, the nationwide adult learning event "Lesson 2022" will take place to celebrate and promote participation in lifelong learning. "Learning 2022" is the…
Bahrain Polytechnic recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Unipal; a Bahraini student-centric platform that focuses on enriching student life and delivering a distinctive…
At the 2023 Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting, a panel discussion titled "What Does Accessibility Mean to Our Community?" provided valuable insights from disability…
A proposal released this week by an obscure U.S. pharmaceutical organization could help end a decadeslong practice of bleeding horseshoe crabs caught along the U.S. East Coast for a protein…
By invitation, SPARC Europe recently attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access. Participants reflected on the current diamond OA publishing system and how to develop and…
Staff at the U.K. arm of Springer Nature, publisher of the Nature family of academic journals, walked out for a second day of strikes today as part of a continuing standoff over…
As Israel-Hamas conflict rages on, the tremors of this intense warfare have sent shockwaves reverberating through the scientific community, not just in the region but around the world.
In…
The “educational harm” caused by the coronavirus pandemic has been “devastating,” according to a recent survey of 26 million K-8 students by researchers at Stanford, Johns Hopkins,
Estonia's Ministry of Education and Research (HTM) has unveiled preliminary proposals for a comprehensive education agreement, featuring significant reforms in career progression, workload…
Editors of academic journals hold an influential position in their field. They have decision-making power over which authors and papers get published, set journal policy, and help shape the…
Can artificial intelligence (AI) alleviate the laborious and time-intensive nature of academic research collection? An international team of researchers delved into the credibility and…
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a venerable cornerstone of high-energy astrophysics for nearly 25 years, is now in jeopardy as funding cuts proposed in President Joe Biden's budget…
Two years after setting ambitious goals for saving habitat and species by 2030, delegates at a United Nations biodiversity summit that concluded in Cali, Colombia, last week largely failed…
Ever since Philipp Lorenz-Spreen stopped posting on X (formerly Twitter) last year and switched to Bluesky, he has noticed how differently he responds to the two platforms. “Whenever I go…
In recent years, China has become a world leader in a key measure of scientific impact: the number of academic papers produced by researchers there that are then widely cited by other…
Amazon is launching free educational courses on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to promote "critical skills" among adults and young learners worldwide. The company's initiative,
Social virtual reality games and apps such as VRChat, AltspaceVR and Rec Room are immersive 3D experiences that let people with disabilities—both visible and invisible—try activities…
Space physicist Dou Xiankang took the helm of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) little more than a year ago, but has already introduced reforms to support young and…
Today we removed an article titled “Should we ditch big exam halls? Our research shows how high ceilings are associated with a lower score”, because the original research has been found…
In the global race to build a fully functional quantum computer, Australia has wagered heavily on a company developing a dark-horse technology. The Australian national government and the…
The success of university campaigns, research initiatives, departmental endeavors, and individual scholar projects depends on effective publicity strategies. These efforts are aimed not…
For the second time in just over 2 years the World Health Organization (WHO) is ringing its loudest alarm bell about the same disease: mpox.
This afternoon, WHO Director-General Tedros…
On May 20, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting for entrepreneurs focused on the opportunities in the Japanese market, and presented Ene Selart's new book, "The Relations of…
The United States has regained the global lead in x-ray lasers. The Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II), a so-called x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) at SLAC National Accelerator…
A NASA-funded commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed four key developmental milestones, marking substantial progress in the station's design and operational readiness.
On the first day of her class at the University of Zurich, Annika Martin asks her students, primarily researchers, to roll out yoga mats and perform a pose called 'wild goose drinking…
Five domestic scientific journals have been selected as the Science Journal of the Year 2023 award candidates. They are (in alphabetical order): Adult education , Elore&n…
A recent study conducted by psychologists at Durham University challenges the popular belief that social media use is inherently addictive. The research, involving 51 student volunteers,
Recently discovered flaws in electronic circuits onboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft could threaten the longevity or even the launch of the $5 billion mission to explore Jupiter’s…
The European Commission wants the EU to spend a total €13.6 billion on research and innovation next year, with €12.8 billion going to Horizon Europe. That is €400M more for the…
In a groundbreaking development, researchers have harnessed 3D printing technology to fabricate brain tissue that closely resembles the real thing both in appearance and function. This…
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Cutting-edge exascale supercomputers, operating at speeds exceeding 1 exaflop (10^18 flops) per second, are breaking barriers in material science and climate modeling, offering researchers…
The American Psychological Association (APA) and ResearchGate have entered a partnership aimed at amplifying the reach and discoverability of APA’s journals by providing ResearchGate…
Hidalgo, a former HKS research fellow, publicly levied the plagiarism allegations in a post on Hausmann late last month, writing that Hausmann failed to properly acknowledge his work in two…
Research is undoubtedly one of the most painstaking and thorough processes. Irrespective of your discipline, stage of work and career, research can be an arduous and time-consuming task.
Fear of missing out has rocketed the value of artificial intelligence companies, despite few signs as to when the technology will turn a profit, raising talk of AI overenthusiasm.
The…
A team of scientist–sleuths has flagged data-integrity concerns in 130 studies authored by the same biomedical researcher, a specialist in women’s health and gynaecology, and…
Last month, OpenAI came out against a yet-to-be enacted Californian law that aims to set basic safety standards for developers of large artificial intelligence (AI) models. This…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is gutting a landmark project designed to fund social science research with important implications for national security. Dozens of researchers with…
Earth got its bell rung this past weekend, sucker-punched by the Sun itself in the biggest geomagnetic storm in more than 2 decades. The storm—triggered when the magnetic fields in blobs…
On a research cruise around Hawaii in 2018, Yuening Zhang SM '19, Ph.D. '24 saw how difficult it was to keep a tight ship. The careful coordination required to map underwater terrain could…
A team of computer scientists at Purdue University has discovered that the popular language model ChatGPT is significantly inaccurate when responding to computer programming questions. In…
Recent data from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has unveiled a troubling trend: a notable decrease in the number of U.S. citizens pursuing postdoctoral positions, particularly…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is injecting its search engine with more artificial intelligence that will enable people to voice questions about images and occasionally organize an entire…
The science reform movement—which aims to improve the rigor of research—has unwittingly handed the administration of President Donald Trump a way to attack science, critics say.
Neuron published the paper, "Common DISC1 Polymorphisms Disrupt Wnt/GSK3β Signaling and Brain Development", in 2011. It has been cited 101 times, 28 of which came after concerns were first…
In what many see as fallout from the concern that researchers studying bat viruses may have triggered the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has…
Wiley, a global leader in research and learning, has launched the groundbreaking Wiley Database of Predicted IR Spectra, a pioneering addition to their offerings. This database, a result of…
A recently unsealed report from Harvard Business School (HBS) sheds light on accusations of research misconduct against renowned honesty researcher Francesca Gino. The report, comprising…
Three researchers have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quantum dots–a class of materials so small that their size alone alters their optical and…
A team from Graz University of Technology has analyzed the risks and damage potential of hydrogen vehicles in tunnels and derived recommendations. Their conclusion? Any damage would be…
In May, 2024 behavioral ecologist and ecotoxicologist Michael Bertram received some disconcerting news: His identity had been used, apparently by another researcher, to produce dozens of…
A trio of AI researchers from Cornell University, Signal Foundation, and Now Institute have published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature, arguing that well-known open…
In the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported another worrying virus. Identified in 35 people in eastern China since 2018, Langya henipavirus causes breathing…
In January, a review paper1 about ways to detect human illnesses by examining the eye appeared in a conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics…
In response to the surge in ChatGPT's popularity among researchers, a group led by Giovanni Cacciamani, a professor of urology research, is set to release comprehensive guidelines for the…
In a groundbreaking announcement, Claudia Goldin, an economic historian from Harvard University, has been honored with this year's prestigious Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for…
A recent series of reports from a regional research organization underscores the pressing need for enhanced scientific collaborations and data sharing among Asian nations to address the…
Estonian scientists from TalTech are developing a monitoring system to predict the spread of pollution from shipwrecks. The system can also be utilized to assess risks when constructing new…
The proliferation of university rankings in recent years has sparked a critical examination by experts, revealing inherent flaws and biases that challenge their validity and usefulness in…
A groundbreaking biosensor capable of pinpointing proteins and peptides at an unprecedented level—down to a single monolayer—has been developed by researchers at the Institute for…
When Lindy Elkins-Tanton imagines the metallic asteroid Psyche, she dreams of terrain unlike any seen before. Small craters could look like frozen splashes of water, fringed with silvery…
In a significant breakthrough against the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a collaborative effort led by Texas A&M University has successfully developed a new class of…
Irish writer John Connolly once said: "The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away."
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The Ministry of Education and Research allocates a total of 5.1 million euros to the maintainers of municipal and private education schools, kindergartens and nurseries to support the…
In the realm of oncology, the quest for precision treatments tailored to individual patients has faced significant challenges. While genetic sequencing has been a focal point, the…
The US Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. If the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts,
Researchers who worried that their recently restored National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants could be terminated again because of a recent Supreme Court ruling can breathe a bit easier…
A technique based on artificial intelligence (AI) can translate brain scans into words and sentences, a team of computational neuroscientists reports. Although in the early stages and far…
In a remarkable display of resilience and innovation, Estonian startups have secured a total of €147.3 million across 45 investment deals during the initial three quarters of 2023. The…
Recent research led by Penn State underscores the prevalence of persistent insomnia symptoms among children and adolescents, particularly from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds. The…
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As plastic pollution continues to pose a threat to our oceans, a team of researchers from Wageningen University and EPFL has developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) model to…
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After years of deliberation, a panel of geologists has rejected a proposal to officially designate the Anthropocene epoch, marking a period when human influence on Earth became dominant.
Researchers in Japan have demonstrated reactions, for the first time in a fusion reactor, with a type of fuel that is plentiful and doesn’t produce damaging particles. Although the…
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KAIPING, CHINA—Some 700 meters beneath a hill here in the rural hinterlands of Guangdong province, a new observatory is preparing to tackle one of cosmology’s lingering questions: Which…
Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, since April, The…
In Estonia, invasive crayfish species from America, such as the signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus), spiny-cheek crayfish (Faxonius limosus), marbled crayfish (Procambarus…
Following in the footsteps of other federal science agencies under President Donald Trump’s administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week ordered its staff to start…
Clarivate announced the exclusion of 82 journals from the Web of Science core collection. This also means that these de-listed journals lost their Impact Factor.
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Leprosy, a disease that can cause nerve damage, lesions, and the loss of smell and eyesight, has afflicted people for millennia—and we’re not alone. It’s also plagued squirrels since…
Amid efforts by the Trump administration to "put an end to fraudulent and wasteful spending" and "enhance" accountability, two key offices charged with investigating fraud and holding…
For years, the complex dynamics of ocean ecosystems have eluded comprehensive study due to limitations in technology. Now, a groundbreaking mission led by NASA is poised to transform our…
Brussels, EU - In a move aimed at safeguarding the integrity of upcoming EU elections, the European Union has initiated an investigation into Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms.
The Gulf Observatory Program for Artificial Intelligence in Education aims, in its first session, to prepare a platform for artificial intelligence in education on the office’s electronic…
In the aftermath of the historic decision at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) climate meeting in Dubai to establish a loss-and-damage fund, researchers are grappling with…
In a significant collaborative effort, Germany, France, and Poland have joined forces to establish the 'Weimar Triangle,' a political alliance aimed at enhancing coordination among national…
Jeanne Marrazzo, the newly appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is setting forth on a mission to redefine the agency's approach to…
Jisc, a not-for-profit organization providing digital solutions for UK education, and The Glenlead Centre have joined forces in a groundbreaking initiative, the "Accessible Digital Futures"
More than half of the 1500 research grants that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has terminated in the past month under orders from President Donald Trump’s administration aimed to…
Liping Zhang, a former assistant professor in the school’s nephrology section, “engaged in research misconduct in research supported by U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) funds,”
An English university has issued a finding of research misconduct against a former graduate student, Sameer Quazi, and is requesting 10 retractions of his published work, which they say…
With surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, Venus today is a veritable hellhole, despite being similar in size to Earth and orbiting in the habitable zone of the Sun. Yet studies…
After the Canadian government asked for a new misconduct probe, the University of Guelph (UG) has come to a much more damning conclusion about its star botanist, whose research upended the…
William Young, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, has had a storied career. Appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1985, the 84-year-old judge…
As Retraction Watch recently reported, three of the top 10 philosophy journals in the highly influential Scopus database turned out to be fakes: Not only did these dubious…
A groundbreaking epidemiological study has produced the most compelling evidence yet that exposure to the chemical solvent trichloroethylene (TCE)—common in soil and groundwater—increase…
People living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) struggle not only with extreme exhaustion and the cognitive problems known as brain fog, but with a profound…
The journal Nature Synthesis has pulled a high-profile article describing the creation of a new type of carbon after a university investigation found some data were made up.
In response to allegations of data fabrication raised by obstetrician-gynecologist Ben Mol and subsequent resignation of 10 editors, two BMC journals, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, and BMC…
Stories define people—they shape our relationships, cultures and societies. Unlike other skills replaced by technology, storytelling has remained uniquely human, setting people apart from…
The European Space Agency (ESA) today released the first pictures of galaxies taken by its new space telescope, Euclid, which aims to help researchers understand the dark…
Facing a mutiny by his co-authors, Ranga Dias, the University of Rochester (U of R) physicist embroiled in controversy over his superconductivity research and allegations of scientific…
There were an estimated 996 publishers that published over 11,800 predatory journals in 2015. In 2021, another estimate said there were 15,000 predatory journals. This trend could weaken…
In a long-awaited advance, researchers at Google have shown they can suppress errors in the finicky quantum bits critical to the promise of quantum computing. By spreading one “logical”
Saaremaa State Gymnasium opened its doors two years ago. Situated on the largest Estonian island, this shiny new building accommodates over 500 pupils. Studying there is free of charge, and…
Scientific sleuth Anna Abalkina uncovered several issues with Science of Law, which she details in a post. Besides editors and editorial board members who cannot be verified and don’t…
Microsoft, synonymous with AI innovation, has made substantial investments totaling nearly $10 billion in artificial intelligence abroad in recent months, solidifying its position as a key…
In the face of intense pressure and criticism from many in the scientific community, Chinese researchers today released a trove of new genetic data that may offer fresh clues to the origin…
Philip G. Zimbardo passed away in October 2024 at age 91. He accrued a long list of accolades, but his singular and enduring contribution to scholarship was the Stanford Prison Experiment,
The offending paper, "A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic", was published in April 2022 in a special issue Dirk H. R. Spennemann had edited.
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) last week apologized to Indigenous Peoples in Canada—First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples—for the role it played in contributing to medical…
When a reader suspects inappropriate image manipulation in a published article the decisions on what action to take will be influenced by whether manipulation of the images has an effect on…
A White House order set to go into effect today that would freeze huge chunks of federal spending is the latest attempt by President Donald Trump to bend the government to his will.
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Collective monographs with Scopus indexing in the field of pedagogical sciences are being prepared for publication.
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It was one of those head-snapping, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it weeks in Washington, D.C. Many U.S. science agencies abruptly abandoned normal operations last week to focus on a slew of…
In 2022, over 4,600 scientific papers were retracted from academic journals, primarily due to ethical violations or research fraud. While retractions represent a small fraction of total…
In a pioneering mission underscoring the burgeoning potential of the Moon as an astronomical platform, a commercial spacecraft embarked today on a journey to deploy two small observatories.
The tech community is more strongly divided in how they feel about artificial intelligence (AI) than the general public according to a study of Reddit discourse following the launch of…
On Friday, Microsoft users worldwide, including those from banks, airlines, and media broadcasters, reported widespread outages. This occurred hours after Microsoft announced it was…
The fires that spread destruction across the Los Angeles region this week and killed at least 11 people have spared two famed scientific facilities: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Scientific discovery is one of the most sophisticated human activities. First, scientists must understand the existing knowledge and identify a significant gap. Next, they must formulate a…
Seeking accurate information from large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT carries a potential risk – the generation of fabricated "facts." A recent incident involving a New York lawyer…
In the realm of scientific inquiry, the relationship between open science, research integrity, responsible research practices, and transparency is a complex and multifaceted one. In this…
Sign up for a clinical trial of a psychedelic drug and you’re agreeing to a potentially bizarre experience. “All of a sudden, your dead grandma or Satan is in front of you,” says…
The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday it would demand that Google make profound changes to how it does business and even consider the possibility of a breakup, after the tech…
Ebook Central makes it easy to manage discovery, selection, acquisition, administration, and reporting all in one place – and to give students, faculty and researchers seamless and…
The shift announced Thursday will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into its dominant search engine to the digital maps service that the…
A newly appointed dean at the University of Guelph in Canada has had two papers retracted for "evidence of authorship manipulation." Last year, two Elsevier journals retracted articles on…
The October 2023 paper, "Prediction of Weaning Outcome from Mechanical Ventilation Using Ultrasound Assessment of Parasternal Intercostal Muscle Thickness", was originally published in the…
Did you see the article claiming Kamala Harris joked about killing Mike Pence and Donald Trump? Or the one about large numbers of Trump votes being secretly switched to Joe Biden? If…
A controversial rocket scientist in India earned his fourth retraction in October after an investigation at a physics journal found a core part of his work was "inaccurate and paradoxical."
The University of Tartu (TÜ) announced nearly 100 recipients of several honorary decorations on Friday, among them TÜ professor and MP Margit Sutrop (Reform), TÜ professor and Estonian…
Researchers at EPFL have developed a groundbreaking algorithm capable of training analog neural networks with accuracy comparable to their digital counterparts. This advancement opens the…
Negotiations for a global pandemic treaty, initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, are approaching a critical juncture. However, deep…
Every person starts with just one genome, the unique amalgam of paternal and maternal DNA in the fertilized egg. And researchers long thought that over a lifetime, pretty much all of the…
Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes today, each so extremely surprising that, in the event’s long tradition, it makes people laugh, then…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial here today to protest what they…
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About a year ago, I sampled an ice cream that contained no animal milk, but used dairy proteins brewed from microflora, a type of microorganism.
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Scientists hoping to obtain some of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) dwindling research funds face a new challenge: They will be limited to submitting six applications per…
A groundbreaking study conducted in China has shed light on the alarming connection between air pollution and suicide rates, emphasizing the urgent need for environmental action. Published…
Researchers in the United Kingdom breathed a cautious sigh of relief yesterday after the government struck a deal with the European Union to fix post-Brexit disputes over issues including…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is stirring debate with its proposal to tighten regulations on certain lab tests, raising concerns about the potential impact on patient care and…
By any standard, China would seem to be a formidable space power. Earlier this year, the country achieved a historic first by retrieving soil and rock samples from the far side of the…
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) highly regarded Vaccine Research Center (VRC) once had a roughly 400-person workforce that helped develop and clinically test vaccines and…
Any paper that uses the acronym CNN to stand for “convolutional brain organization” probably wasn’t carefully written and revised by human authors. Instead, researchers say, such…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of David Sacks, a billionaire high-tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, to shape his administration’s efforts on artificial intelligence…
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced pay increases today for early-career scientists who are recipients of its Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards…
A recent report reveals that researchers in the U.S. and various other countries encounter insufficient support when it comes to openly sharing their data. The State of Open Data Report…
A journal formerly published by Hindawi has yet to publish any sort of notice on a paper sleuths reported for containing duplicated images 1.5 years ago. The article, "Resveratrol…
Modern software applications usually consist of numerous files and several million lines of code. Due to the sheer quantity, finding and correcting faults, known as debugging, is…
Facebook-owner Meta announced a substantial increase in quarterly profits, yet concerns over the mounting costs of artificial intelligence (AI) led to a dip in its share price on Wall…
After two decades of meticulous effort, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, alongside their collaborators, have reached a…
JAMA Pediatrics has retracted a controversial 2023 paper on the incidence of long COVID in children after the authors discovered a raft of “coding” errors in their analysis that greatly…
An already fiery congressional hearing earlier this week on the role Anthony Fauci played in fighting COVID-19 veered unexpectedly into accusations by Republican lawmakers that…
Get ready for the third edition of the Netherlands National Open Science Festival! After last year’s successful event with over 300 visitors, this year the festival will be held…
Can you hear the sound of silence? It’s a question that may seem better suited to a philosophy class (or a Simon & Garfunkel concert) than a science lab, but a new study published…
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The two papers, "Heat shock protects cardiac cells from doxorubicin-induced toxicity by activating p38 MAPK and phosphorylation of small heat shock protein 27", and "HSP27 regulates p53…
As the fight against climate change intensifies, startups are turning to innovative ocean-based carbon capture technologies to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Unlike traditional…
A spokesperson for Elsevier, which in addition to owning Scopus is also the parent company of Cell Press, the publisher of Heliyon, told it is "investigating" but would not elaborate.
The Ministry of Education and Research is providing more than €2 million in support for integration and language camps, which will provide exciting and educational leisure activities for…
In a significant breakthrough, astronomers have unveiled a fresh image of the heart of the nearby galaxy M87, confirming the existence of a colossal black hole 6.5 billion times the mass of…
SINGAPORE – Seven parties from the public and private sectors have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to help local businesses improve their environmental…
About 1 million years ago, our distant ancestors hunted in small bands and gathered their food with sophisticated stone tools. Then, about 900,000 years ago, something happened: The number…
Just like most aspects of academia, the order of authorship for a scientific paper is a bizarre combination of essential and arbitrary. If you’re new to science, you may be wondering what…
A heated legal dispute has reignited in a San Francisco courtroom, centering on whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should prohibit the fluoridation of drinking water to…
A groundbreaking discovery in Ukraine sheds new light on the ancient history of human settlement in Europe. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence suggesting that early humans may have…
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In the summer of 2020, Anna Abalkina came across an advertisement online: a website was selling authorship of a chemistry paper that it said was to be published in a reputable journal in…
In a post today in the Kindle Direct Publishing community forum, the self-publishing giant announced that it has begun a beta test on technology allowing KDP authors to produce audiobook…
Today marks the launch of a groundbreaking international nonprofit initiative dedicated to enhancing biosecurity measures in modern biotechnology. Named the International Biosecurity and…
Debate over the use of artificial intelligence, already touching everything from admissions to grading, has reached peer reviewing, as academics balance technological uncertainty and…
In a revealing case spanning over two years, the starkly different retraction timelines of two major publishers have raised questions about their responsiveness to potential research…
Despite widespread acknowledgment of the vulnerability of U.S. academic research to foreign threats, particularly from China, the White House finds itself deadlocked over the enforcement of…
In achieving food self-sufficiency, Singapore must not neglect the aspect of nutrition.
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A leading tech industry group on Tuesday called on G7 nations to harmonize cloud security certification across the world's richest nations, in an effort to stoke cooperation and counter…
Two management journals from the same publisher have retracted a pair of articles for taking "models, samples, and results" from each other and earlier work."Workplace bullying and…
London, U.K., March 5, 2024 – Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in transformative intelligence, proudly presents its prestigious 2024 roster of Top 100 Global Innovators™.
A startling occurrence off the coast of South Africa in March 2021—a mass fish kill attributed to cold water—has prompted scientists to explore a potentially alarming connection between…
A well-known fact: peer review is good for science. Sometimes we disagree with a reviewer's resume, sometimes we are pleased to hear praise for our work, and sometimes we have to work hard…
Accusations of defamation and intimidation have been leveled against molecular biologist Richard Ebright and microbiologist Bryce Nickels, both associated with Rutgers University, for their…
According to the Office of the Vice President of University of Virginia for Research’s 2025 annual report, the University spent $829 million on research and development in the last fiscal…
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In January 2023, Lindsay Ejoh posted a TikTok video of her work dissecting a frozen mouse brain. In it, the neuroscience PhD student uses a bladed machine to cut paper-thin tissue slices…
Year after year, a husband-and-wife team at a university in Iran has been publishing studies involving research on cell lines ostensibly purchased from the Pasteur Institute of Iran, in…
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The first vaccine against the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya will likely come to market next month. With the debilitating disease now afflicting more than half the countries in…
It's been a long journey since Virginia “Ginger” Hislop first stepped onto the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) campus.
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A dossier obtained by Science from whistleblowers suggests potential scientific misconduct related to a stroke drug and Alzheimer's research led by prominent neuroscientist Berislav…
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British competition regulators have announced an investigation into recent artificial intelligence (AI) agreements involving Microsoft and Amazon, citing concerns about potential…
Astronomers’ efforts to get the United Nations to back guidelines to stop satellites from spoiling telescopes’ views have become bogged down in diplomatic bureaucracy. At a U.N.
For the past 3 months, thousands of Serbia’s students have taken to the streets to protest what they say is rampant corruption in the country’s public institutions. Now, an increasing…
Employees at the university have accused president Masahiro Yoshimoto of duplication between 11 sets of his published papers – implicating 34 papers in total. The employees submitted the…
On 1 July 2023, as Tour de France riders pedaled out of Bilbao, Spain, toward the French Pyrenees mountains, sports cardiologist Andre La Gerche tuned in from Melbourne, Australia.
In the face of an overwhelming volume of scientific papers—almost 3 million published last year alone—scientists are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to streamline…
Just how long does a cluster of protons and neutrons have to stick together to count as an atomic nucleus? That’s the question raised by the observation of nitrogen-9, a fleeting nucleus…
Scientific misconduct has enjoyed some limelight lately. The president of Stanford, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, resigned last month after a series of investigations exposed serious problems in…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated our lives. Our phones unlock at the sight of our faces. We can have entire text conversations with ChatGPT. Amazon knows what I am looking for,
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The scientific community is grappling with a growing wave of concerns surrounding image manipulation in research publications, prompting journals to adopt innovative strategies to safeguard…
A recent legislative move in Florida is causing significant disruptions in academic research collaborations at the state's public universities. Since July, a new law has been in effect,
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Clarivate Plc has released its Highly Cited Researchers™ list for 2023, recognizing influential researchers worldwide who have made significant and widespread contributions in their…
A former assistant professor of international relations at Yibin University in Sichuan, China, said he was fired from his job and “forced” to retract a paper on COVID-19 because the…
In September 2022, FDA officials conducted an inspection at a research facility affiliated with the City University of New York (CUNY), uncovering significant deficiencies in the lab of…
Shady companies have long given unscrupulous scientists the opportunity to buy authorship of papers—a form of academic fraud. But according to a draft paper posted online today…
Has the quest for room temperature superconductivity finally succeeded? Researchers at the University of Rochester (U of R), who previously were forced to retract a controversial claim of…
A psychiatry researcher who received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year committed research misconduct, another federal watchdog found.
DOAJ indexes a diverse range of high-quality open access journals, and often more from under-represented regions than other indexes. Tom Olyhoek, Editor-in-Chief, takes a fresh look at…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a…
Researchers have unveiled a significant breakthrough in Parkinson's disease research with the creation of transgenic marmosets that closely mimic the disease's onset and progression. Led by…
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers may have found a celestial descendant born from the remnants of the universe's inaugural stars, shedding light on the mysteries of their explosive…
Going up for tenure and promotion can be nerve-wracking for any academic. It’s supposedly an unbiased evaluation of a scholar’s work, but other dynamics can come into play. Now, new…
What to do when an editor informed that a manuscript submitted to their journal has also been submitted to other journals at the same time. The COPE's flowchart offers editors a step by…
For decades the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has funded several hundred elite researchers who tend to cluster at top U.S. biomedical institutions. But a new “special” round of…
The troubled biopharma company Cassava Sciences agreed last week to pay $40 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that it had misled investors about early…
Astronomers are sounding the alarm as Mexico's renowned astronomical facility, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT), faces a looming funding cutoff. Without renewed support…
For millennia, the Passamaquoddy people used their intimate understanding of the coastal waters along the Gulf of Maine to sustainably harvest the ocean’s bounty. Anthropologist Darren…
As many as 1 million kilometers of fence may crisscross the western U.S., enough to stretch to the Moon and back. Erected over the past century, largely to contain livestock, the…
Ranga Dias, the physics researcher whose work on room-temperature superconductors has been retracted after coauthors raised concerns about the data, has lost another paper for the same…
A recent survey conducted by risk experts has shed new light on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the causative agent behind the COVID-19 pandemic. This study marks the first systematic…
In 2018, a biochemist in Scotland, Dario Alessi, became aware of image irregularities in two of his papers through comments on PubPeer, each in a different journal: "Role of the…
The seething, microbe-rich hot springs of Yellowstone National Park are a model of the conditions in which life emerged on early Earth, many researchers think. Now, a study of one…
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a groundbreaking approach to track and manage the invasive weed johnsongrass using artificial intelligence (AI) and…
A microbiologist formerly of Osaka University has lost four papers, with at least one more retraction pending, after an institutional investigation found fabrication and falsification of…
Inga Strümke does not believe artificial intelligence will take over the world with killer robots, but it might kill your spark. This is an area that needs rules, and Europe is about to…
The landscape of higher education is undergoing a transformation, and e-textbooks play a crucial role in shaping the future of learning, teaching, and assessment. However, the existing…
Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics. The doctoral program "Ethics and Responsible Leadership in Business" academically and financially supports doctoral students who develop scientifically…
The conflict that began last week when Israeli drone and missile attacks destroyed nuclear facilities and killed top officials and weapons scientists in Iran has also devastated a…
The invention of the printing press and movable type—metal letters that can be arranged and inked—led to the Renaissance and an explosion of information that continues to this day. Now,
OpenAI has unveiled a voice-cloning tool, dubbed "Voice Engine," designed to replicate speech patterns based on a 15-second audio sample. However, the company intends to exercise stringent…
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The chief of the U.S. National Institutes of Health this week formally acknowledged that some researchers feel the agency has unfairly targeted Asian and Asian American scientists,
Japan’s dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is out to crimp the independence of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ)—the country’s national science academy. With the LDP leading the…
Generations of medical and biology students have been instilled with a dim view of bilirubin. Spawned when the body trashes old red blood cells, the molecule is harmful refuse and a sign of…
Is there a famine in Gaza? Not according to the strict official definition—and that may be slowing much-needed aid.
After months of bombing and displacement, the destruction of…
Retired engineer Gerald Piosenka created the dataset in 2019 by downloading photos of children from “websites devoted to the subject of autism,” according to a description of the…
The quest for renewable energy sources has expanded to include a lesser-known contender: moisture in the air. Scientists worldwide are exploring innovative ways to capture energy from…
Here are 10 literature search tools that will make your scientific literature search faster and more convenient. All of the presented literature review software is free and follows Open…
The article, "The development of Tibetan children’s racial bias in empathy: The mediating role of ethnic identity and wrongfulness of ethnic intergroup bias," appeared in Cultural…
In a groundbreaking development, scientists have unveiled a novel water-splitting technology that could significantly reduce the cost of producing green hydrogen. The key innovation lies in…
Addressing a common challenge faced by large language machine-learning models powering chatbots, researchers from MIT and other institutions have devised a solution to maintain…
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Concerns are rising among researchers that President Donald Trump’s administration is finding new ways to shrink the U.S. biomedical research enterprise even as the White House’s…
A decade-long investigation by a team of scientific sleuths has uncovered a vast body of faked research, with nearly 300 papers flagged for retraction due to signs of fabrication and…
As 2024 unfolds with a record number of elections worldwide, researchers anticipate a surge in misinformation and disinformation. The proliferation of misleading content, particularly…
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In a surprising twist, a mutant butterfly sold on eBay has led scientists to uncover a previously overlooked genetic regulatory mechanism behind the colorful patterns on butterfly wings.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into science, technology,
In a significant development, Google has agreed to settle a massive $5 billion lawsuit, resolving accusations of improperly tracking personal data in the Chrome browser's incognito mode.
This Election Day, U.S. voters will be deciding on more than their government representatives. In many states, voters will be asked to weigh in on initiatives and referenda—146 in…
Teaching staff of the University of Tartu are encouraged to apply to participate in the ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference 2023 held in Bordeaux from 11 to 13 October. The…
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of “What’s in a Picture? The Temptation of Image Manipulation,” where I first discussed the growing issue of image manipulation…
For years before its sudden collapse this week, the brutal regime of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attacked rebels along with civilians caught up in the country’s civil war…
Researchers in Japan have demonstrated reactions, for the first time in a fusion reactor, with a type of fuel that is plentiful and doesn’t produce damaging particles. Although the…
Under the patronage of the Minister of Municipality and Agriculture Affairs, Eng. Wael bin Nasser Al-Mubarak, the Board of Trustees Chairman of Bahrain Polytechnic, the college is…
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo ignited a furor this month when, based on a state analysis purporting to show COVID-19 vaccines were linked to cardiac deaths in young men, he advised…
Next week, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe will whip past both the Moon and Earth on its way to deep space, as part of a daring and previously untried double fly-by…
Increased instances of fraudulent research are affecting the academic publishing community. Following successful pilots, Springer Nature is rolling out two new bespoke AI tools to support…
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Last summer, while the Northern Hemisphere endured record-breaking heat, a paper in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) generated a stir among scientists who study heat’s…
Research institutions worldwide, including the Berlin Natural History Museum and Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology (BHT), have fallen victim to a rising tide of…
London, U.K., September 9, 2024 – Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, has published its inaugural Pulse of the Library™ report. The…
In May, behavioral ecologist and ecotoxicologist Michael Bertram received some disconcerting news: His identity had been used, apparently by another researcher, to produce dozens of fake…
This week, in an announcement that stunned New Zealand’s research community, the country’s center-right coalition government said it would divert half of the NZ$75 million…
In a pioneering collaboration, Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a leading science communication and technology company, has joined forces with Elsevier, a global scientific publishing…
In a pioneering move towards global inclusivity, the American Physical Society (APS) has teamed up with Research4Life to provide open access to its journals for researchers in over 115…
As of December 12, 2023, we present a curated list of grant opportunities aimed at supporting various sectors. Check out the opportunities in three different categories:
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At least four journal articles published in international journals by authors from COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, and other institutions have been retracted over claims of…
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Despite a supplementary budget reducing this year's science funding by €19 million, stakeholders believe the cuts will impact the least critical areas of the sector. Years ago, Estonia…
A pioneering study led by the University of Michigan, in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder's Bioastronautics Lab and NASA's Neuroscience Lab, introduces an innovative…
Although theories abound, there is still no clear explanation for how infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to lingering difficulty concentrating, problems with attention and memory, and other,
From January next year, researchers from lower income countries will pay less to publish in Elsevier’s open access journals. In a new pilot scheme, the publisher will structure its…
Following calls by over 1000 tech workers this week for a pause in the training of the most powerful AI systems, including Chat GPT, UNESCO calls on countries to fully implement its…
Eesti Energia, an Estonian state-owned energy company, is planning to boost its use of green hydrogen, produced from renewable energy sources, in the coming years. While hydrogen is…
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In posts on twitter.com and PubPeer, and in a recent interview in The Times, Cabanac has called for publishers who charge APCs to authors of open-access papers to donate those fees when…
The EU and the US will step up collaboration on the development of 6G wireless communication systems, as Europe seeks to avoid the security risks that the use of Chinese 5G equipment has…
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For many scholarly societies, selling subscriptions to the journals they publish has historically been a key source of revenue, helping subsidize other work such as advocacy and providing…
After fierce criticism from researchers and Aboriginal groups, Australian officials have shelved a plan to cut research programs at the South Australian Museum, one of the…
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has announced that Gold Open Access (OA) publisher Frontiers has adopted the Ringgold Identify Database as its Persistent Identifier (PID) solution to help…
The study scientists has published a list that includes the top 2% of scientists in various scientific fields. The current version is an update of the publicly available database of more…
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An identical paper was submitted simultaneously to two journals. Both editors had received a signed statement from the authors declaring that their paper had not been submitted…
Chris Hartgerink, the founder of Liberate Science, discusses why and how they integrated ROR into the modular publishing platform ResearchEquals for author affiliations in user profiles and…
A team of engineers at Apple has developed an AI-based model called Depth Pro that can map the depth of a 2D image. The team has written a paper describing the app and its…
The South Australian Museum (SAM) in Adelaide has sparked intense debate with its recent proposal to restructure and redefine the roles of its research and curatorial staff. The plan,
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The University of Turku in Finland is taking innovative steps to preserve minor languages, including Estonian, in the post-ChatGPT era. They are in the process of developing a comprehensive…
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In a historic development, Disney's iconic duo, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, have officially entered the public domain in the United States as the copyright for their earliest versions,
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Research-integrity watchers are concerned about the growing ways in which scientists can fake or manipulate the citation counts of their studies. In recent months, increasingly bold…
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In her introduction, Kumsal Bayazit, the first female CEO in the 144-year history of this publishing giant, acknowledges the slow pace of progress towards gender equality, stating, "At the…
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Estonia is one of the countries that, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Examination Center, organized an entrance test for Ukrainian universities to support the continuation of the…
Thousands of fake papers are churned out by so-called paper mills and published every year, many of them in peer-reviewed journals. The issue made headlines recently when Wiley, a respected…
The Government approved a detailed action plan prepared by the Ministry of Education and Research for the transition to Estonian-language education, which outlines the necessary activities,
A highly influential paper that claimed to have identified specific microbial signatures associated with different human cancers has been retracted after journal editors found the…
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The biopharma company Cassava Sciences announced today its experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug simufilam showed no signs of working in a phase 3 clinical trial. Volunteers who…
In a groundbreaking development, engineers from Stanford University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have unveiled a wearable medical device in the form of a glove that shows promise…
One of the figures in an article under review was said by the authors to appear in a presentation given at a conference while the paper was still under review and from this identified the…
In a groundbreaking moment at a research center in Romania, engineer Antonia Toma activates the world's most powerful laser, poised to revolutionize various sectors, from healthcare to…
WASHINGTON — In 2021, wildfires pillaged the world’s carbon-rich snow forests.
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Last July, Retraction Watch reported that Masoud Afrand, a former member of the editorial board of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, had been linked to paper mill activity. At…
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This week, representatives for the popular video-sharing app are arguing in…
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A computer model that combines conventional weather-forecasting technology with machine learning has outperformed other artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools at predicting weather…
Last October, Martin McPhillie, a lecturer in organic chemistry at the UK’s University of Leeds, received an email alert from his institution about a new article bearing his name –
A team of medical researchers at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry has found that despite being trained on terabytes of data, the LLM ChatGPT is still not good…
For research funders seeking to minimize bias in their selection process, removing applicants’ institutional affiliations from their submissions could help address a common disparity:
For many scientists, there’s no greater achievement than winning a Nobel Prize. Since its creation in 1901, the medal has recognized breakthroughs that have broadened our understanding of…
On Thursday, September 1, starting at 10 a.m., the opening ceremony of the Freedom School academic year will take place in Tuvi park (Suur-Ameerika 14a, Tallinn).
Opening remarks will be…
US tech giants Alphabet and Microsoft produce more highly cited research papers on artificial intelligence (AI) than any other company — but Chinese firms Baidu and Tencent are…
The U.S. Congress is pushing back on attempts by President Donald Trump’s administration to make drastic cuts in what the government pays universities to support research on their campus.
The articles, which appeared in Environmental Toxicology, have been retracted in batches, the latest on February 16-17, 2025, with previous sets in January, 2025 and November, 2024. The…
Shalini Srivastava, a professor at the Jaipuria Institute of Management in India, was an associate editor at Employee Relations, an Emerald Publishing title. Two articles she coauthored…
The Lancet Regional Health–Americas published the study, a randomized clinical trial of the effect of metformin on hospitalization rates among COVID-19 patients, in December 2021. In…
Last week’s announcement of AlphaFold 3, a new artificial intelligence–powered program from Google DeepMind, sparked excitement in the scientific community for its promise to…
PLOS One has retracted a 2011 paper "Involvement of FOXO Transcription Factors, TRAIL-FasL/Fas, and Sirtuin Proteins Family in Canine Coronavirus Type II-Induced Apoptosis" first flagged…
Last week, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported seven children, six in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and one in neighboring Burundi, had recently been…
Initial information to Ukrainian citizens and their family members about the opportunities they have to come to Estonia, the necessary documents and contacts.
Estonia’s new president has committed to legalising same-sex unions and marriages – with a change in the law possible within weeks.
It would make Estonia the first Baltic country to…
As reliance on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT grows, researchers are delving into the nuances of how prompt variations affect model responses. Led by Abel Salinas from USC…
In a bold move away from the ubiquitous Google search engine, a new player, Perplexity, powered by artificial intelligence (A.I.), is making waves in the tech world. Founded by individuals…
Minister of Education and Research of Estonia Liina Kersna participated in the 12th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP), organised by the OECD, Education International…
Artificial intelligence has reached new heights in the realm of mathematics, outshining human mathematicians on longstanding, unsolved problems. The innovative AI system, FunSearch,
During the COVID-19 pandemic, preprints—unreviewed manuscripts posted online—were an important venue for biomedical researchers to quickly share findings with colleagues that might help…
When the immense Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, it left gaping holes in astronomy. Now, a team from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) hopes to…
The upcoming U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) hearing on the FDA-approved abortion drug mifepristone carries significant implications for both scientific decision-making and access to abortion.
For women who’ve had breast cancer and would like to have a child, taking a break from a common treatment to try for a pregnancy appears safe in the short term.
New technology promises to dramatically improve the performance of batteries, fuel cells, and the electrolyzers that make green hydrogen and other fuels from electricity. The advance—used…
For many Europeans, Cyprus and Malta represent a distant Mediterranean paradise. But despite their sunny climate, the two are less able to capitalize on their wealth of sunshine and…
A new White House freeze on using government-issued credit cards is the latest shock for federal scientists, potentially affecting everything from conference travel to needed purchases for…
An unpublished analysis shared with Nature suggests that over the past two decades, more than 400,000 research articles have been published that show strong textual similarities to known…
John Deutch was a young chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) when he joined President Jimmy Carter’s energy team shortly after the Georgia Democrat took…
These are just some of the questions that athletes will be able to ask AthleteGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot designed for them, accessible through the…
Something momentous happened in the history of polio eradication in April 2016: Over a period of 2 weeks, 155 countries and territories started to use a new version of Albert Sabin’s…
A paper was submitted to a journal. While the paper was being processed, the authors contacted the journal and advised that a predatory journal had published the same paper without their…
Nearly two dozen journals from two of the fastest growing open-access publishers, including one of the world’s largest journals by volume, will no longer receive a key scholarly…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to two biologists who while studying worms decades ago discovered tiny pieces of genetic material called…
A recent study conducted by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center highlights the effectiveness of modifying smoking-cessation treatment for individuals struggling to quit.
Optical and Quantum Electronics, a Springer Nature journal, has retracted more than 200 papers since the start of September, and continues issuing retraction notices en masse. According to…
For the first time in nearly a century, states in India are spearheading efforts to conduct a comprehensive caste census, shedding light on a deeply ingrained social structure that shapes…
Machine learning has revolutionized numerous fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars, and targeted advertisements. However, these advanced systems often memorize details…
When thousands of University of California (UC) graduate students, postdocs, and academic researchers secured new contracts late last year thanks to their unions and historic strikes, the…
The National Institutes of Health today clarified the restrictions on travel, purchasing, and meetings that President Donald Trump’s new administration imposed on NIH…
In July 2023, Adam Kucharski asked his Twitter followers: What platform do you think you will be spending the most time on a year from now? Like many scientists on Twitter, Kucharski, a…
A study of newer, bigger versions of three major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots shows that they are more inclined to generate wrong answers than to admit ignorance. The…
OpenAI has introduced the GPT Store, an app marketplace for developers and users to create custom functions for ChatGPT, capitalizing on the success of ChatGPT Plus. The store aims to…
Some people like to say that age is just a number. Many scientists increasingly agree, arguing that DNA, protein, or other molecular measurements can tell a truer story about a person’s…
The Baltic states will continue to send military aid to Ukraine, and support the sending of fighter jets, the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said at a meeting in Tallinn…
Google has monopolized the technology used to buy and sell online display ads by restricting or eliminating the choices of its customers—both website publishers and advertisers—the U.S.
A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month.
A comprehensive government-funded study, utilizing over 1 million U.S. health records, has revealed no evidence linking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists—popular drugs for obesity…
Archaeological mysteries surrounding perforated batons, discovered in a cave in southwestern Germany, have finally been unraveled. Initially thought to be ritualistic objects or noisemakers…
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers utilizing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have directly imaged planets with Solar System-like orbits around white dwarfs, the remnants of…
Ivan Oransky doesn’t sugar-coat his answer when asked about the state of academic peer review: “Things are pretty bad.”
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Presentation software programs have advanced to the point where you no longer need to be an experienced designer to put together a compelling piece of collateral that conveys your…
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has barred scientists in China and five other "countries of concern" from accessing 21 biomedical databases, which hold information on genetic…
Starting in late 2013, the first in a handful of record-shattering heat waves struck the north Pacific Ocean near Alaska. Temperatures in these warm “blobs,” which have…
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A recent investigation by the University of Manchester has uncovered instances of poor research practices amounting to research misconduct by paleontologist Robert DePalma, renowned for his…
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For two decades, the push for open access in scientific publishing has championed immediate free access to research papers as a catalyst for faster dissemination and accelerated progress. A…
An intriguing mystery at the heart of life's origins may have found a breakthrough, as researchers propose a novel theory explaining the prevalence of left-handed proteins. Despite both…
Rachel Hardeman, known nationally for studying the effects of structural racism on mothers and children of color, had been accused internally of copying a protégé’s work and passing it…
One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful.
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President Joe Biden’s administration has given itself 6 months to reach a deal with China to preserve a 44-year-old agreement governing scientific cooperation between the two superpowers.
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In 1848, French chemist Louis Pasteur discovered that some molecules essential for life exist in mirror image forms, much like our left and right hands. Today, we know biology chooses just…
President-elect Donald Trump is bringing back the core of his technology policy team from his first term to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
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The gears of the grantmaking machinery at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have begun to move again, after a 2-week standstill following a controversial ban on communications imposed…
President Donald Trump’s administration today moved to fire 5200 workers at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), using supervisors across the vast agency to warn…
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Retraction Watch readers may be familiar with the name David Sanders. Sanders, a biologist at Purdue University, has become a scientific sleuth, ferreting out problems in numerous…
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After already killing more than 1700 active grants related to politically charged topics, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has flagged another roughly 3200 grants for review and…
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ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, today announced a new partnership, with 200 Taylor & Francis…
In a perplexing case involving academic fraud, Wiley, the parent company of Hindawi, has decided to revisit a plagiarism investigation after concerns were raised regarding a deceased…
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I hoped this…
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A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment was retracted today, following years of campaigning by scientists who alleged the…
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National Research Foundation. The Singapore NRF Fellowship provides an opportunity for young researchers to conduct independent research in Singapore over a five-year period. It is open to…
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A landmark paper concerning stem cell research and transplantation that misled researchers and the general public for 15 years is among the more than 10,000 research papers retracted in…
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Bowing to national security concerns raised by members of the U.S. Congress, the University of Michigan (UM) last week announced it will terminate an institute run with an elite Chinese…
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As Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) programme enters Phase 2, the rich control dataset of Asian populations aims to revolutionise the way healthcare is delivered.
Springer Nature today announced a new AI-powered in-house writing assistant to support researchers, particularly those whose first language is not English, in their scientific writing.
In the first part of their article “The ‘hijacking’ of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Implications for the information systems community”, Müller and Sæbø
The editors of journal check all articles against Medline for possible redundant publications. Two very similar articles from an author were retrieved when the name of the author was…
Climate scientists, on average, are less trusted around the world than scientists in general, according to a preprint posted to the Open Science Framework last month. That lack of trust…
The aim of the grant is to increase the number of urban planning actions for positive clean energy districts using PED design, consolidated specifications of the urban sensor network,
Duke University's decision to close its esteemed 100-year-old herbarium has ignited controversy and condemnation from the scientific community. The university announced the impending…
1. Crossref is association of scholarly publishers that develops shared infrastructure to support more effective scholarly communications. Our citation-linking network today covers…
The U.S. and Chinese governments today signed an extension of a 45-year-old agreement that recognizes both nations can benefit from scientific collaborations. But the new version modifies…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Astrophysicist David Spergel's experience teaching data science at a summer school in Ukraine amidst missile attacks prompted him to initiate a significant effort. Now,
Biologists who have been obtaining DNA sequences online from companies will soon have a more convenient option: benchtop machines that can print all the DNA they need. But this technology…
Tesla has issued a recall affecting 3,878 Cybertruck vehicles due to a defect that may lead to unintended acceleration, posing an increased risk of crashes. The announcement, posted in a US…
In the study, which has taken two years and was posted on 26 November, 2024 to the medRxiv preprint server, a team of more than 60 researchers trawled through 50 systematic reviews…
Neuralink, Elon Musk's neurotechnology company, has gained attention for its unconventional methods of disseminating medical research information. Instead of traditional scientific…
Home to an estimated 16,000 tree species, the Amazon rainforest is an unparalleled hot spot for biodiversity. Western scientists once saw it as a leafy paradise relatively untouched by…
A panel of scholars in Finland has downgraded 60 journals in their quality rating system after extensive review and feedback from researchers. The Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO)
Shortly after artificial intelligence models like Midjourney and OpenAI's DALL-E went public, AI-generated art began winning competitions in digital art and photography. This sparked…
The phrase "misconduct in research" today is a quaint reminder of how much science has been captured by for-profit, politicized, international interests. As a four-decades-removed social…
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A paper was reviewed by two referees. The associate editor dealing with it recommended rejection as both reviews were critical of the methods, results, and reproducibility of the…
A 2014 paper in Science, "Mitosis Inhibits DNA Double-Strand Break Repair to Guard Against Telomere Fusions", is from the lab of Daniel Durocher, a professor of molecular genetics at the…
In the vast landscape of health research, PubMed's specialized queries serve as invaluable tools, offering master search strategies for common and complex health topics. However, one…
The UK on Tuesday said it had awarded a record 131 new green infrastructure projects in a single auction, including plans for Europe's two biggest offshore windfarms.
Data sleuths say they have found evidence of possible research fraud in several papers by Francesca Gino, a behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School. The publications under scrutiny…
Already bruised by the first round of firings of federal workers by President Donald Trump’s administration, employees at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faced more bad news.
The EQUIP study, which examines the quality, use, and impact of psychotropic medicines in older adults with intellectual disabilities, has uncovered that more than half of this population…
Anyone active in academia and on X (formerly Twitter) will have noticed a significant shift in their timeline since Elon Musk took over the platform. Even before October 2022, many users…
In the face of an overwhelming surge of updates inundating the internet and social media, the need for reliable information has never been more critical. With the potential for false…
In a startling revelation, a vendor offering citations for purchase has emerged as the latest disruptor in scholarly publishing. A recent investigation by researchers at New York University…
Have you noticed certain words and phrases popping up everywhere lately?
Phrases such as "delve into" and "navigate the landscape" seem to feature in everything from social media posts…
Clarivate, the data company for scholarly publications, has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science, after reevaluating the open-access biology journal’s…
A week of reduced social media usage neither increased nor decreased people’s desire to get back online, a new study finds. The lack of craving to return to social media platforms such as…
A team of researchers led by Mikhail Lukin at Harvard has achieved a significant milestone in quantum computing by creating the first programmable, logical quantum processor. The processor…
Behind every set of bulk retractions are teams of trained individuals using specialized tools, carefully going through several steps of a standardized process in line with industry best…
The stinging heat of chili peppers, the cooling taste of mint, and the drying sensation from drinking tea were all part of Sulo Roukka’s winning entry in Science’s “Dance Your…
NEW YORK CITY—Humans eat more than 30,000 species of plants and animals. But for the most part we don’t know much about what is in them. Researchers have thoroughly analyzed the…
A Springer Nature journal has rescinded the acceptance of a paper criticizing the publishing giant’s controversial retraction last year of an article that surveyed parents of children…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald…
Researchers used machine learning to analyse roughly 1,500 climate policies and identify those that have dramatically reduced carbon emissions. Their study, published in Science to…
The most important part of a book is its content. But the presentation and representation of the book are also important. How the book looks, how comfortable it is to read, whether there…
The retracted paper, "Prioritising primary care patients with unexpected weight loss for cancer investigation: diagnostic accuracy study,"appeared Aug. 13, 2020. The researchers, led by…
In a rapidly evolving conflict landscape, the power of technology to provide real-time insights and comprehensive situational awareness cannot be overstated. As tensions persist and…
The retracted article by Catherine Verfailli, "Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow," has been controversial since its publication. Still, it has been cited…
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to add questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to its Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) in the coming months, the…
President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement yesterday that he will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the $1.8 trillion Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent shock,
A former research fellow at Harvard Medical School faked data and used images from another scientist without attribution in a published paper and two grant applications, according to…
Edinburg Children’s Hospital is the first freestanding pediatric hospital in the Rio Grande Valley. The 107-bed hospital in Edinburg, Texas, features the region’s only exclusive…
A year ago, when applied biologist Renee Wegrzyn took the helm of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), questions swirled around the brand-new agency, which was created…
In a groundbreaking development, scientists are exploring the potential of miniature 'anthrobots' constructed from human cells to revolutionize medical treatments. Envisioned as molecular…
The first major update in nearly two decades to U.S. regulations governing research misconduct by biomedical scientists has evoked a diverse range of reactions. The proposed changes aim to…
Kervarc-Genre had never come across such blatant fraud, she said, and was unsure about what to do, so turned to PubPeer to report the findings. Others soon joined, uncovering more troubling…
Sylvain Lesné, a neuroscientist accused of image manipulation in a seminal Alzheimer’s disease paper in Nature, resigned last week from his tenured professorship at the University…
In a historic announcement, President Joe Biden revealed that a Japanese astronaut will make history as the first non-American to set foot on the moon, marking a significant milestone in…
From disinformation campaigns to soaring skepticism, plummeting trust and economic slumps, the global media landscape has been hit with blow after blow.
World News Day, taking place on…
A paper that has been accepted for publication in a journal has recently been found to be unsuitable for publication. The authors have been highlighted in other journals for disseminating…
Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) made an unusual offer to many of its 37,500 principal investigators: If you have a laboratory study you think could have a major…
Just this year, Retraction Watch reported Saveetha was among 14 universities with "questionable publication practices", defined as unusually fast growth in research output, as measured by…
Meteorologists call it the “quiet revolution”: a gradual but steady improvement in weather forecasting. Today, the 6-day forecast is about as good as the 3-day forecast from 30 years…
In 2022, Earth set new records for warmingTemperatures continued to rise at an alarming pace in 2022, which became the fifth- or sixth-hottest year in modern history, U.S. and European…
The discovery of intact brain tissue in ancient human skulls has long fascinated researchers, challenging conventional notions of decomposition and preservation. Recent findings shed light…
A psychology journal has retracted an article on IQ tests nearly 50 years after publication – and more than 35 years after an investigation found the lead author had fabricated data in…
David Samuel, a violist with the San Francisco-based Alexander Quartet, nearly didn't make it to the United States due to visa complications. As a Canadian citizen, he needed a work visa,
A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) must immediately restore approximately 800 grants touching on politically sensitive topics that it…
The emails began arriving on the eve of April Fool’s Day, but they were no joke. Four directors and one acting director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) 27 institutes…
In 2001, geoscientists reported a completely new kind of earthquake at a subduction zone, a seam where a tectonic plate of ocean crust dives under a continent. Subduction zones…
The majority of the editorial board of the Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics journal have resigned en masse after the publisher replaced the journal’s editors without warning. Also…
The original article, published on Oct.13, 2022 and titled "This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On," was based on a map created by Native Land. The article encouraged…
A manuscript was submitted with a covering letter clearly stating the originality and unpublished nature of the work. The authors stated that the results had already been orally presented…
It’s time to brace for record-breaking heat. Last year was the hottest on record and 2024 is shaping up to be even more extreme, with the mercury soaring close to 50 °C on…
Recent studies have shed light on the mysterious health incidents experienced by U.S. diplomats and intelligence agents in various locations worldwide. While the cause of these anomalous…
As the specter of smallpox, the only human disease officially eradicated, still looms, a recent report emphasizes the imperative for the United States to fortify its defenses against a…
In the pursuit of elevating the standing of your scientific publication, achieving indexing in renowned platforms such as Scopus and Web of Science is a key milestone. If your journal faces…
The embattled mega journal Cureus has closed six of its so-called "academic channels". The move follows a joint investigation in May by Science and Retraction Watch that found several…
Like athletes who resort to steroids, too many researchers are being tempted to engage in paper milling activities to artificially boost their output. So, what should an honest researcher…
A newly released report by SPARC Europe sheds light on the current landscape of Open Education (OE) and Open Educational Resources (OER) within European higher education institutions as of…
The recent warm and sunny weather has significantly impacted sea surface temperatures along the Estonian coast, leading to the development of marine heatwaves in the Baltic Sea. Satellite…
A Preprint is a fully drafted research paper that is available as Open Access to all, before it undergoes peer review. Thus, authors are able to share their research…
In an unexpected turn of events, Grunge music, particularly Soundgarden's iconic 1994 hit "Black Hole Sun," has become a source of inspiration for Earl Bellinger of the Max Planck Institute…
Universities have a crucial role to play in shaping the future of AI use in academia, and several steps can be taken to navigate the ethical complexities surrounding generative AI:
Timothée Poisot, a computational ecologist at the University of Montreal, has built a successful career studying biodiversity. His guiding principle is that his research must be useful,
A groundbreaking study, titled "Risk factors for young-onset dementia in the UK Biobank: A prospective population-based study," published in JAMA Neurology, challenges the prevailing belief…
Coronaviruses have already caused three major disease outbreaks this century, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and scientists suspect other members of the family lurking in nature threaten…
European universities and research institutes say rule changes by the US’s main health research funder will force them to hire staff to deal with vast amounts of new paperwork,
Plagiarism is a cardinal offense for academics. In December, it also became the latest cudgel in the conservative culture war on Harvard and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Harvard was…
Last month, UK researchers welcomed the appointment of one of their own as science minister, the ultimate position of power in British research. Patrick Vallance is a former government…
The crowd gathered in an auditorium in the Swiss village of Villars on Tuesday applauded as, one by one, three scientists—two women and a man—stepped onto the stage to accept a plaque…
President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office was hard on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which assesses risks to human health and the environment. Political…
The New York Public Library has revealed its Best Books of 2023, a meticulously curated selection of 240 recommended titles spanning children, teens, and adults. This annual tradition…
Sune Dueholm Müller is an associate professor at the University of Oslo and is currently serving as editor-in-chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He tells his…
The journalSouth African Journal of Botany, title Elsevier, has pulled three articles after the publisher determined an author, botany researcher Vijay Kumar of Lovely Professional…
Until Retraction Watch reached out for comment, the company “Springer Global Publication” – which is not affiliated with Springer Nature – had advertised a variety of services on…
Discovered less than a century ago, the expansion of the universe causes galaxies to rush away from Earth, stretching their light to longer, redder wavelengths. That observation spawned the…
Who will be able to get COVID-19 shots this fall in the United States? The answer is far from clear following the publication this week of a new framework by U.S. Food and Drug…
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Preparing manuscripts for publication is a meticulous process, with each publication having its unique requirements and procedures. Drafting manuscripts can be…
The paper with the nonexistent reference, published November 13, 2025 in DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, criticizes platforms for post-publication peer review – and PubPeer…
16 August 2022, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA) has successfully published 28 books in various fields written by several writers launched in conjunction with UNISSA's 12th…
Case
A person named in the acknowledgements of a paper wrote to the editor indicating that they had been in part responsible for the analysis and interpretation of the data and should…
President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Stanford University health economist and outspoken critic of the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic to lead the world’s…
As college students across the country settle in for their first day of classes, they’re getting used to a new section on the syllabus: a course’s generative AI policy.
Institutio…
Last week, journalists rushed to report on previously undisclosed genetic evidence that mammals sold at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China—possibly raccoon dogs—might…
In the latest blow to a once high-flying career, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking to debar biologist David Sabatini from receiving National Institutes of…
Most people will learn one or two languages in their lives. But Vaughn Smith, a 47-year-old carpet cleaner from Washington, D.C., speaks 24. Smith is a hyperpolyglot—a rare individual who…
A high-profile Science paper that suggested Facebook’s algorithm plays little role in driving political polarization has drawn a pointed critique of its methods and…
Intensity scale for atmospheric rivers reveals global hot spots
Atmospheric rivers like those pummeling the West Coast now have a five-level intensity scale, which has enabled researchers…
On 18 April, Alexela, Eesti Energia, Port of Tallinn, the University of Tartu and the Estonian Association of Hydrogen Technologies signed an agreement…
A comprehensive international study, led by Dr. Kai Ruggeri at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, with collaboration from over 80 experts across 30 countries, emphasizes the pivotal…
In a shocking revelation, the esteemed Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, has acknowledged the necessity for retractions or corrections in dozens of…
GetFTR, the service designed to simplify the researcher's journey from discovery to access, has unveiled its latest innovation—the GetFTR Browser Extension. This freely available…
Australia will force Meta and Google to pay for news shared on their platforms under a new scheme unveiled Thursday, threatening to tax them if they refuse to strike deals with local…
Senator John Thune (R–SD), a career politician who this week was elected majority leader of the U. S. Senate, will now have a bigger influence over U.S. research funding. And although…
The article, "Culturally-informed for designing motorcycle fire rescue: Empirical study in developing country", published in June in AIP Advances, overwhelmingly cites the work of Muhammed…
It’s been a rough go lately for synthetic biology’s flagship companies, which genetically engineer microbes to produce everything from medicines to materials. Three highfliers—each of…
The “very simple study,” as lead author Konradin Metze called it, published on October 10, 2025 in the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, used LLM chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini,
More congressional spending panels are pushing back against the drastic research cuts sought by President Donald Trump. And energy research would actually get a small boost.
Estonia has engaged a significant portion of its population in a groundbreaking genetic research initiative. The Estonian Biobank, which houses genetic data from 210,000 contributors —
A prominent Italian pharmacologist under investigation for embezzlement and rigging university contracts has garnered a dozen and a half retractions in the last year for image alterations…
In a study published in PLoS Biology on 8 May, 2025 scientists analysed more than 300 papers that used data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), an open…
The Minister of Education and Research Tõnis Lukas emphasized the importance of ensuring teachers' satisfaction in his speech to the teaching staff at the Education Meeting. The…
Last week, soil entomologist Camila Filgueiras was allowed 30 minutes to grab whatever she could in her lab at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Asheville so she could teach her…
In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Medicine, researchers from VA Connecticut Healthcare Center and Yale University shed light on the shared genetic architecture underlying…
The world has an insatiable demand for lithium, aka “white gold,” a metal critical in electric vehicle batteries, and most of it now comes from giant evaporation ponds in places such as…
A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) underscores the urgent need for innovative caregiver support within the U.S. academic community.
Since the Stone Age, hunters have brought down big game with spears, atlatls, and bows and arrows. Now, a new study reveals traditional societies around the globe also relied on another…
The PISA 2022 educational survey, published on December 5th, 2023, reveals that the knowledge and skills of Estonian 15-year-olds are among the best in Europe and within the top eight…
The ORCID iD serves as an internationally recognized identification number that establishes a connection between researchers and their research outputs. It offers a unique association with…
It was a conversation neither wanted to have. Last month, University of Maryland professor Anne Simon broke the difficult news to Xiaobao Ying that she didn’t have funding to extend his…
The threat hanging over South African HIV/AIDS researchers for the past week has become a reality: President Donald Trump’s administration this afternoon began terminating or…
Nobel Prizes usually recognize decades-old achievements. But this year’s prize in chemistry was awarded in part last week for very recent work that is just beginning to bear fruit: using…
A prolific hijacked journal has managed to breach the defenses of Scopus, one of the world’s leading academic databases. This time, the target is the award-winning journal Community…
1. SETI's Extraterrestrial Intelligence Hunt Receives $200 Million Boost
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) received a significant financial injection with a $200 million…
As an essential mechanism of scientific self-correction, articles are retracted for many reasons including errors in processing data and computation of results. In today’s data-driven…
NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, hailed as a landmark endeavor in robotic exploration, faces a daunting challenge: soaring costs and prolonged timelines. With an estimated…
Bioengineered has lost its spot in Clarivate’s Web of Science index, as of its April update. In 2021, journal editors launched an investigation when submissions spiked and several authors…
A large-scale efficacy trial of a promising tuberculosis (TB) vaccine will soon launch with $550 million in pledged funding from two major philanthropies, giving an enormous boost…
In the fast-evolving landscape of science and technology, 2024 promises a host of breakthroughs and challenges that are poised to make headlines. As political uncertainties loom over the…
A groundbreaking study published in Ecology and Evolution reveals how a computer algorithm can accurately distinguish individual beavers by analyzing the unique patterns of scales on their…
U.S. residents who fill out the census questionnaire every 10 years are told their answers will remain confidential. But that promise from the U.S. Census Bureau comes with a statistical…
Biologists at Stanford University have reported the discovery of a novel type of virus-like entity, referred to as "obelisks," inhabiting bacteria in the human mouth and gut. These entities…
When U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles was upset in a race this month at the Paris Olympics, weakened by COVID-19 and earning only a bronze medal, the coronavirus that once stopped the world made…
The long and circuitous trip of a spacecraft on its way to study Mercury is getting a bit longer and more circuitous thanks to a glitch in its propulsion system. The BepiColombo mission is…
A study co-authored by Associate Professor Juliana Schroeder found that people view customer service agents that make typographical errors—and correct them—as more human and sometimes…
A broken U.S. immigration system threatens the country’s status as a global leader in research, according to a new report by a committee of the National Academies of Sciences,
“I hated writing growing up,” Rachel Yang lamented in an essay she wrote for Science Careers this year. “It felt like navigating a chaotic jungle, where creative types swung…
Amid the ongoing conflict in the region, Palestinian scholars like Mou’yed Issa Talab Ismail are facing significant challenges in pursuing their academic aspirations. Ismail, who recently…
South Africa will impose a decadelong ban on commercial fishing around six areas home to the endangered African penguin starting next year. The measure, announced by the government on 4…
Maxim Zdorovets, director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Astana, has written or coauthored 480 papers indexed on Scopus, and one analysis puts him as the third most cited researcher…
Manatees, beloved yet endangered species, face threats due to environmental changes and human activities. Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science has…
The programme is designed together with three universities, Tallinn University, School of Digital Technologies, Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication…
A recent study shared on arXiv has uncovered a concerning facet of artificial intelligence (AI) language models – their ability to exhibit deceptive behavior and strategically hide it…
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between IBTE and Industry Partners held at The Lecture Theater of School of Aviation, IBTE Sultan Saiful Rijal Campus on the 21st May…
A comprehensive analysis published in JAMA sheds light on the pervasive financial relationships between physicians and the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Led by a team from…
A recent study sheds light on disparities in news coverage of scientific research, revealing that scientists with East Asian and African names are less likely to be mentioned or quoted in…
Two authors submitted a case report which was interesting but not written in the style of the journal. The editor therefore invited the authors to rewrite the case report, and resubmit it.
Ensuring adequate sleep is crucial for children's overall well-being, particularly for those with neurodiverse conditions like autism and ADHD. Pediatric sleep experts shed light on the…
Authors of a landmark Alzheimer’s disease research paper published in Nature in 2006 have agreed to retract the study in response to allegations of image manipulation. University of…
In the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election, political misinformation surged, with 'fake news' — fabricated stories designed to influence the election outcome — spreading…
In the latest sign of turmoil at the National Institutes of Health, Lawrence Tabak, longtime NIH principal deputy director, abruptly stepped down yesterday, surprising colleagues and the…
Hoboken, NJ – January 11, 2024 – In a groundbreaking move, the University of California (UC) system comprising 10 campuses, alongside 48 private and public academic and research…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine…
Since their discovery in 2019, odd radio circles (ORCs) have baffled astronomers, appearing as enigmatic rings in radio sky surveys. Now, a team of astronomers claims to have unraveled the…
Do you have what it takes to win Science’s “Dance Your Ph.D.” competition? As the kangaroo-friendly researcher who was last year’s winner showed, where there’s a…
A special variety of the element thorium hosts an atomic nucleus that could be used to keep time, scientists say. In a first, researchers have measured a type of decay of this thorium…
Artificial intelligence is making its way into your favorite movies and TV shows, bringing with it plenty of fear and anxiety from those who work in and around the entertainment…
A former researcher at Nemours Children’s Health in Wilmington, Del., admitted to falsifying and incorrectly reporting data in at least two published studies, both of which were supported…
Journal A published a review paper. About a year later, the author of a paper published in 4 years ago in Journal B wrote to say that he had come across the paper in Journal A during a…
In a pioneering move poised to enhance seafloor monitoring capabilities, Portugal is set to embark on the installation of a groundbreaking fiber-optic cable spanning the Atlantic Ocean.
Numbers are making headlines in the world of academic retractions: over 10,000 retractions in 2023, 19 journals closed by Wiley, and now, a record-breaking milestone.
The editor received correspondence from a third party suggesting that a paper published in the journal by four co-authors contained suspect data. The suspicion was based on the observation…
In a landmark move, the French government has unveiled a sweeping set of measures aimed at transforming the nation's research organization. President Emmanuel Macron, emphasizing a…
Preprint by author Richard Murdoch Montgomery presents a radical reassessment of scientific validation processes, arguing that traditional peer review has become an outdated, inefficient,
A comprehensive study conducted at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) has shed light on the severity of head injuries sustained in e-bike accidents, highlighting their more serious nature…
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A scholar's prestige is measured not only by outstanding ideas, excellent research results, but also by how much his work is recognised outside his university, his country and even his…
A decade after Kyoto University biologist Shinya Yamanaka won a share of a Nobel Prize for discovering a cocktail of proteins that reprogram adult cells into versatile stem cells, two teams…
A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications has unveiled compelling evidence of Down syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities in infants dating back over two millennia.
10 May, Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets opened a conference on e-governance, noting that the digitalisation of states was particularly important in today’s world, which is going…
A recent surge in deportations of Chinese graduate students holding valid U.S. visas has sparked concerns and uncertainties among international student communities and academic…
Mechanical engineer Baskar Ganapathysubramanian is developing an app that would use artificial intelligence (AI) to help farmers identify pests and advise on how to combat them.
In the autumn, 560 elementary and high school students will start their studies at the Freedom School for Ukrainian youth. Teaching at the school located in the center of Tallinn will…
Despite the impending EU mandate of a 40% quota for women on corporate boards by June 2026, a survey by EY consultancy revealed that more men than women were appointed to the boards of…
In a landmark development, Estonia's historic teachers' strike concluded as the trade union acquiesced to the government's minimum compromise. The strike, unique in both its duration and…
The fate of two planned giant telescopes in Hawaii and Chile rests with the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), after a review of the U.S.-led projects, each vying for $1.6…
There’s a giant hole on the backside of the Moon. The South Pole–Aitken (SPA) Basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest impact crater, is more than 2500 kilometers wide and 8 kilometers…
When it comes to talking, our brain does the heavy lifting. It subconsciously directs the complex coordination of lips, tongue, throat, and jaws we need to pronounce words. And it keeps…
As our reliance on digital platforms grows to manage daily activities, it becomes essential to consider the potential impacts on our overall well-being. From ordering food to socializing on…
The campaign promises that propelled Republican President-elect Donald Trump to a decisive victory last week over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, including huge tax cuts and tough…
An agreement between the two organisations will allow Retraction Watch to keep the data populated on an ongoing basis and always open, alongside publishers registering their retraction…
At the end of June, the first integration and language camps for Ukrainian and Estonian youth started. In total, with the support of the state, 280 camp shifts are held, which create…
September 15, the Üleilmakool for Estonian-speaking children living outside Estonia will start its tenth academic year, where 300 students from 33 countries already study.
COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, and the world is gearing up for a new round of boosters. But like all vaccines, those targeting the coronavirus can cause side effects in…
In a significant advancement in display technology, a team of South Korean scientists, led by Professor KIM Dae-Hyeong from the Center for Nanoparticle Research at the Institute for Basic…
Along with physical fatigue, “brain fog” has become one of the best-known manifestations of the condition known as Long Covid. Yet it’s still unclear why some people infected with…
Hagfish, known for their eyeless faces and slimy bodies, have played a pivotal role in unraveling a significant evolutionary mystery—when vertebrate genomes underwent duplication and its…
The group warns that the new tax measures may harm the appeal of the e-residency programme and hinder future business growth in the country.
“Temporary taxes are never temporary,”
Professional workers, such as lawyers and accountants, are bracing for the shakeups artificial intelligence is expected to bring to their roles. Experts believe the inclusion of AI in these…
During their first two years, the EU Missions in Horizon Europe have supported the Commission's work on the European Green Deal, making Europe fit for the Digital…
Navigating the skies as a pilot comes with its unique set of challenges, not the least of which is the toll it can take on mental health. The demanding nature of the job, coupled with the…
Google's recent changes to its search algorithm and spam filters, aimed at eliminating low-quality content, have had devastating effects on smaller websites and online businesses.
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) can put young math prodigies to shame. Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are now acing nearly every math test they…
An international computing society has begun retracting conference papers for “citation falsification” only months after the sleuth who flagged the suspect articles was convicted for…
COLLABORATION TO HELP DEVELOP SIC ECOSYSTEM IN SINGAPORE
SINGAPORE – The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and…
A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant1. But the man, who has been virus-free…
Nature reportedin 2023 the number of research article retractions surpassed 10,000, with countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China having the highest retraction rates…
In a recent study, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exam submissions at the University of Reading in the UK went largely undetected and often received higher grades than those of real…
The EU voiced concerns about "harmful" content posted on Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube as it told the digital platforms on Wednesday to hand over more information on how their platforms…
The journal eLife will no longer receive a journal impact factor, the much-debated metric that many scientists view as a badge of quality, the analytics firm Clarivate announced…
In a bid to support open access initiatives in the UK, the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has introduced a comprehensive two-stage application process for research organizations. The…
President Donald Trump has nominated Susan Monarez, an infectious disease researcher and current acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to become the…
The world's population, which reached 8 billion in 2022, is vividly represented in this interactive map as if the Earth had only 1,000 people. Utilizing population estimates from the United…
In response to concerns raised and following an investigation, Sage Publishing has issued a retraction for the article titled "Information Skills and Literacy in Investigative Journalism in…
At the meeting held yesterday in Tallinn, representatives of Estonian education technology (EdTech) companies assured Liina Kersna, the Minister of Education and Research, that they are…
Three-and-a-half years since SARS-CoV-2 spread around the world, scientists are still documenting the virus’ myriad effects on human health. What’s clear already is that those effects…
An open letter calling for a pause on the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems has divided researchers. Attracting signatures from the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk…
For two decades, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) has served as a pivotal gathering for scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders to delve into the realms of European science and its…
The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) have received the prestigious Europol Excellence Award in Innovation for their groundbreaking innovation, the Drug Hunter Analyzer. This…
In our quest to define "Reasonable Costs" for public access to US Federally Funded Research and Scientific Data, the spotlight turns to the charged question of whether deposit fees for…
Two international research consortia, led by the University of Tartu, received €30 million from the European Commission for the development of two research centres in Estonia over the…
The genetically modified immune cells known as CAR-T cells have cured thousands of people with blood cancers, but so far the treatments only work against a few types of the disease. Today…
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (JHLT) has decided against retracting a November 2024 paper that violated the ethics policy of the publication. After publishing the paper,
After putting in a lot of thought, time, and effort, you’ve finally selected a research topic. As the first step towards conducting a successful and impactful research is completed, what…
At this year's National Library's Mother Language Day conference "The Language of Feelings and Technology", one of the topics discussed was being human as an Estonian and how artificial…
When Sam Payne reviewed a paper in March for Elsevier’s BioSystems, he didn’t expect to come across a figure he had created in his research. He quickly scrolled through the rest of the…
When someone loses a hand or leg, they don’t just lose the ability to grab objects or walk—they lose the ability to touch and sense their surroundings. Prosthetics can restore some…
Most people interact with maps regularly, for example, when they're trying to get from point A to point B, track the weather or plan a trip. But beyond those daily activities, maps are also…
The director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science.
The boss of social media platform Telegram has been arrested in France, accused of allowing the sharing of illegal content.
The Russia-founded messaging platform has stayed out of the…
Digital Science is pleased to announce that its flagship product Dimensions, the world’s most complete database of linked research information, is launching a beta to explore the…
Recent developments in AI-powered search tools from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft have sparked concerns about the reliability and visibility of news content online. Evidence…
A pledge to slash France’s budget deficit by a whopping €60 billion over the next year has dashed the hopes of many of the country’s scientists to catch up with their better funded…
Artificial intelligence (AI) combined with a novel bio-inspired camera achieves 100-times faster detection of pedestrians and obstacles than current automotive cameras. This significant…
What flies like a bumble bee, balances like a meerkat, and tumbles like a gymnast? If you guessed any living creature, you should know this mystery thing is also made of carbon fiber and…
When it comes to investing and planning your financial future, are you more willing to trust a person or a computer?
Big banks and investment firms are using artificial intelligence (AI)
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An author anxious about a competing paper contacted journals A and B (and perhaps others) about possible fast-track consideration of his study. Journal A said it would be as fast as…
Like a mighty firecracker, Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, blew up today, 4 minutes into its first attempt to reach space. After sailing into the skies above Boca…
In the midst of the burgeoning AI-related legal landscape, the New York Times has initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI. The central contention revolves…
The Journal of Cellular Physiology, a Wiley title, will retract two articles by an arthritis researcher the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs found to have engaged in research misconduct.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has upheld previous rulings, affirming that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be designated as an inventor in a patent application. This decision,
Elon Musk's ambitious venture, Neuralink, has taken a significant leap forward by implanting a 'brain-reading' device into a human for the first time. The trial, aimed at revolutionizing…
Today, the Dialog Solutions brand has been integrated into Clarivate. Following the acquisition of Dialog Solutions as part of the ProQuest M&A in December 2021, Dialog Solutions…
For decades, the forced swim test (FST) has been a cornerstone of research in antidepressant drug development, offering a simple yet contentious method to gauge potential treatments.
Most scientific studies that get published have “positive results,” meaning that the study proved its hypothesis. Say you hypothesize that a honeybee will favor one flower over another,
The submission of articles for the current issue of ScienceRise continues. You will receive prompt work, double-blind peer review, public access publication, posting the article in indexing…
During the AI Safety Summit, which took place in early November 2023 in the UK and was dedicated to the issues of AI, its development and security, the importance of cyber security…
DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) — After a setback from an appellate court in August, advocates for the legal rights of LGBTQ+ students on Monday announced renewed efforts to block an Iowa law…
Six months after announcing the $5 billion Project NextGen to develop treatments and vaccines that can “stay ahead of COVID-19,” the U.S. government has awarded 20 contracts…
Increasing the citation rate of a scientific journal is closely tied to the promotion of its articles. The broader the dissemination of published articles, the higher the chances of…
On 30 April 2018, Kilauea, the dozing 1247-meter-tall volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, reawakened. Molten rock surged from a crack on Kilauea’s flank, marking the start of its largest…
Go for a biopsy these days and chances are your doctor will have to knock you out, slice part of you open, and fish around for the needed tissue. But what if a tiny sensor could guide a…
A bill approved by the House of Representatives this week would make it difficult for U.S. drug companies to contract with five major Chinese biotechnology companies. Academic researchers…
In the ever-evolving landscape of academic publishing, a new threat has emerged in the form of fraudulent journal sites, posing significant challenges for journals and publishers alike.
Worried that bioterrorists will take advantage of the growing ease of creating risky pathogens in the lab, federal officials are beefing up guidelines for companies that sell nucleic acids…
In a groundbreaking revelation, archaeological findings from the central German village of Ranis shed light on the coexistence of modern humans and Neanderthals in northern Europe over…
Gregg Semenza, a professor of genetic medicine and director of the vascular program at Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Cell Engineering in Baltimore, shared the 2019 Nobel prize in…
When COVID-19 hit, many behavioral scientists had a way to keep their research running: Move it online. The pandemic boosted an already growing trend of studies conducted via…
The aftermath of China's deadliest earthquake in years continues to unfold, with the death toll reaching 148, as reported by state media on Friday. The earthquake, striking northwest China…
The current system of academic publishing favors a select few and needs an overhaul, replaced with a model more aligned with academic values and offering better value for money. This…
Researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have uncovered a significant security vulnerability in web browsers' graphics processing unit (GPU) interfaces, potentially…
Agrowing number of AI tools are being used to predict everything from sepsis to strokes, with the hope of accelerating the delivery of life-saving care. But over time, new research…
A comprehensive survey by a team from Croatia, published in the International Journal of Student Project Reporting, has explored the intersection of art and artificial intelligence (AI).
Habemus papam! Minutes ago, the Vatican announced that U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost would be the next pope. Artificial intelligence (AI) made its own prediction earlier this week—but…
The global prevalence of type 1 diabetes has prompted a critical question within the medical community: should all children undergo mass screening for the condition? Despite the condition…
MIT researchers have unveiled GenSQL, a generative AI system designed to simplify complex statistical analyses of tabular data. This innovative tool allows users to perform…
SAN FRANCISCO—Imagine a cookbook with 150,000 tempting dishes—but few recipes for making them. That’s the challenge facing an effort at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…
Reports that teams led by two Chinese mainland professors have each been awarded 1 million yuan ($138,000) for publishing papers in Nature, a leading international science journal, have…
A significant victory unfolded today for Michael Mann, a renowned climate scientist, as a jury ruled in his favor in a long-standing defamation lawsuit. The case revolved around derogatory…
The response of the Ministry of Education and Research to the public address "For the Protection of Teachers' Page" made by representatives of the following organizations to the Prime…
The new look at perceived publication pressure comes from Zuyderland Medical Center and the University of Groningen, both in the Netherlands. The European Journal of Radiology presents the…
After months of tense negotiations and a barely averted strike, this week postdocs and associate researchers at Columbia University agreed to a contract that will boost their minimum salary…
Atomic clocks are the pinnacle of precise timekeeping, used to define the second and incorporated in GPS and telecommunications networks. But perhaps not for much longer. By precisely…
Several years ago, when scientists reported in Nature that various types of cancer were consistently associated with distinct communities of microbes, the clinical possibilities…
The medals keep coming for US swimmers at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris — and that’s in part thanks to science.
Several of the athletes on Team USA have improved their…
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread around the world in spring 2020, one of the most drastic measures governments took was to shut schools, upending students’ lives and, for many, their mental…
Viruses plague bacteria as well as people, and some bacteria deploy what one scientist calls a “crazy molecular mechanism” to defend themselves, two studies published…
Sponsored by Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), Bahrain Polytechnic held its 6th Engineering Project Exhibition, where 4th year students from the School of Engineering presented and developed…
A journal has retracted five papers about the appearance, sexual behavior and attractiveness of women. Nicolas Guéguen, a professor of marketing at the Université de Bretagne-Sud in…
Melanin, the pigment that provides the color in our skin and hair, also plays key roles in protecting skin from ultraviolet (UV) light and repairing skin wounds. Now, researchers report…
In an exciting development, Estonia's fourth satellite, ESTCube-2, was launched into space from French Guiana on Monday at 4:36 a.m. Estonian time. Originally scheduled for October 7, the…
The innovative disposable masks feature high filtration capabilities and anti-fog attributes to help make mouth movements visible without compromising safety.
In the labyrinth of journalism, one enigmatic term often eludes understanding: the news embargo. Many journalists remain unfamiliar with its workings, while readers typically remain…
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, embodied in a sophisticated large language model (LLM) known as GPT-4 (Generative Pre-Training–Model 4) from OpenAI, has demonstrated…
Public attention to the use of animals in research is on the rise, and with good reason. As scientists, we have a responsibility to avoid using animals in our work whenever possible. Not…
A professor of biomedical engineering at the Pennsylvania State University today lost a government-funded study in Science Advances, marking her second retraction. Deborah Kelly, is also…
For one engineer who recently graduated from a U.S. university, the termination of his record in a government database used to track international students has meant uncertainty about…
February 10, 2025 The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact, celebrates innovations that have transformed scholarly publishing, has announced the DOI for Scholarly Publishing as…
The analysis, published before peer review on the Open Science Framework on September 24, 2024, found one in seven scientific papers may be at least partly fake. The author, James Heathers,
The organization responsible for allocating basic research funding in China has issued misconduct findings against 26 researchers for violations ranging from breach of confidentiality to…
Lidar technology, capable of penetrating forest cover to reveal hidden archaeological sites, has uncovered evidence of a network of interconnected cities in Ecuador's Upano Valley. The…
A study of Swedish PhD candidates has shown the vast toll that doctoral studies can take on mental health. The survey adds robust data to discussions about the mental-health…
On 21-25 August 2023, the city of Rotterdam hosted more than 3000 delegates from over 100 countries gathered for the 88th edition of the World Library and Information Congress - IFLA World…
Some 2000 years ago in a desert in southern Perú, the ancient Nazca and Paracas peoples created massive designs in gravel and stone, depicting animals, humanlike figures, and…
Research integrity investigators have identified a potential new red flag for fraudulent papers in cancer research: findings about human cell lines that apparently do not exist. A recent…
A highly influential organization of pediatricians is facing blowback over advice it published earlier this year urging parents to avoid foods with ingredients from genetically modified…
SpaceX’s rapidly growing fleet of Starlink internet satellites now make up half of all active satellites in Earth orbit.
On February 27, the aerospace company launched 21 new…
To the surprise of many scientists, Lia Merminga, director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), stepped down this week as head of the country’s sole dedicated particle…
For his experiments monitoring heavy metal pollution in aquatic environments, Daniel Guerra Giraldez relies on large amounts of a common lab enzyme that is sensitive to mercury in water.
SAN FRANCISCO — Boston University has hired prominent disinformation expert Joan Donovan to a tenure-track position in its College of Communication after her dismissal as a Harvard…
Scientists from the Pacific Islands have long felt left out of discussions of global scientific challenges, even those that impact their region. Hoping to gain a stronger voice in such…
India’s Parliament last week approved a new research funding agency aimed at boosting the nation’s scientific standing. But some analysts are skeptical that the Anusandhan National…
19 May, Foreign Minister Liimets met with Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and talked about humanitarian aid in Ukraine, the…
Lucas, diagnosed with a rare brain tumor at six, defied bleak expectations by becoming the first child worldwide to overcome brainstem glioma. Once facing a dire prognosis, Lucas's…
Researchers face rejection similar to actors and writers. When scientists submit their work to journals, many manuscripts are rejected from their top-choice publications but eventually get…
Bahrain Polytechnic, supported by the Bahrain Economic Development Board, signed a partnership agreement with Apple to establish Bahrain’s first Apple Authorized Training Center which…
When the diabetes treatments known as GLP-1 analogs reached the market in 2005, doctors advised patients taking the drugs that they might lose a small amount of weight. Talk about an…
A 17-year project to craft a synthetic genome for yeast cells has reached a watershed. Researchers revealed this week in 10 new papers that they have created designer versions of all yeast…
Academic researchers in Israel are grappling with significant challenges stemming from the aftermath of Israel’s military actions against Hamas in Gaza, according to a recent survey. The…
The article, "Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: An estimate," appeared online January 2, 2024 in the journal Biomedicine &
From lobster fishing bans to school closings during the COVID-19 pandemic, the misuse of science by federal agencies and individual researchers has fueled the public’s growing distrust of…
Of all of COVID-19’s symptoms, one of the most troubling is “brain fog.” Victims report headaches, trouble concentrating, and forgetfulness. Now, researchers have shown that…
Over the past decade, I've written numerous articles for the LSE Impact Blog and other platforms, advocating blogging as a crucial medium to share new research and ideas. Blog posts,
A team of researchers from South Korea has developed an innovative system that enhances the ability to search through video content. As described in the International Journal of…
In an exciting development, Microsoft has officially launched the premium version of ChatGPT, making it accessible to the public. This premium subscription includes integration with the…
Venerable scientific institutes around the United Kingdom could be forced to close under a new funding scheme, according to an open letter signed by more than 400 scientists that…
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Tartu suggests that individuals with a high genetic predisposition to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may…
In a potential breakthrough, scientists may have unraveled the mysteries behind Stephen Hawking’s renowned formula for disorder within black holes. Published in a forthcoming paper in…
In a shocking revelation, a joint investigation by Science, Retraction Watch, and industry experts exposes a widespread practice of paper mills bribing journal editors to secure publication…
On 16 June, 2025 William Young, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, was taken on a new question: whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has,
In a collaborative effort to streamline scholarly communication, stakeholders in the academic community are increasingly recognizing the value of investing in open scholarly infrastructure.
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has published the 2024 Serials Price Projection Report. This year’s report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for…
Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses a variety of data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and…
Abstracts should provide a brief yet comprehensive reporting of all components of a manuscript. Inaccurate reporting may mislead readers and impact citation practices. Scientists Sherif…
DNA leaves little doubt: All non-Africans alive today descend from a single wave of migration out of Africa, perhaps sometime between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. But over the…
A leading developmental biologist at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) this spring resumed teaching and supervising students, including undergraduates, ending a 3-month suspension…
A new school year is starting. Teachers and professors have already started their preparations, students and students at least from today. Ahead of this school year, there is a…
If a person is greeted by clothes, then a book is greeted by its cover.
The cover is the face of the book, which will tell a lot about it: from goals to conclusions, from general topics to…
Cryptocurrency fraud in Nigeria is exclusively committed by young men, with 100% of convicted fraudsters being male and nearly two-thirds under the age of 30, according to a new study from…
When radiologist Domenico Mastrodicasa finds himself stuck while writing a research paper, he turns to ChatGPT, the chatbot that produces fluent responses to almost any query in seconds.
Unfortunately, science has an increasing fake paper problem with multiple cases having surfaced in recent years, even in renowned journals. There are companies, the so-called paper mills,
In a groundbreaking experiment presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, researchers from the University of British Columbia reveal that artificial…
In 2022, we announced that access to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database was provided to 95 of the Research4Life countries. Now that you have become familiar…
Pulling molecules of planet-warming carbon dioxide straight from the air has been likened to finding needles in a haystack. Removing methane, a shorter lived but far more potent greenhouse…
The University of Turku, Finland, is pioneering a groundbreaking initiative aimed at developing a multilingual artificial language corpus proficient in all European languages, including…
In a move aimed at enhancing the impact of scientific research, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is set to recommend significant changes to its grant review process. After an…
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When Devin Singh was a paediatric resident, he attended to a young child who had gone into cardiac arrest in the emergency department after a prolonged wait to see a doctor. “I remember…
US computer giant IBM confirmed Monday it would close its research and development arm in China.
Multiple employees told AFP they had been informed during a brief meeting with US…
Professor Park Jin-hee and her research team at DGIST have introduced a groundbreaking technology for detecting hazardous chemicals, offering a convenient solution accessible through a…
Scientific fake papers, containing manipulated or completely fabricated data, are a problem that has reached dramatic dimensions. Companies known as paper mills (or more bluntly as…
Canada's competition watchdog announced Thursday it was taking Google to court, accusing the company of "anti-competitive behavior" in online advertising.
Research advocates are expressing alarm over a White House directive on federal grantmaking released yesterday that they say threatens to enhance President Donald Trump’s…
Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential. According to Google Scholar, he’d authored a dozen papers on topics ranging from complex algebras to the…
Publishing giants and generative artificial intelligence companies are striking deals that aim to both protect copyright and provide for the rapidly increasing needs of the AI industry.
US…
In a captivating display of movement and meaning, "Kangaroo Time" has claimed the top spot in Science's esteemed "Dance Your Ph.D." competition. Set against the backdrop of an Australian…
Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives slammed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for cutting biomedical research and public…
The U.S. government is launching a wide-ranging effort to study whether combining two drugs matched to molecular weak spots in a patient’s tumor will work better to wipe out the cancer…
On Tuesday, Microsoft physicist Chetan Nayak faced a formidable challenge: convincing an excited but largely skeptical standing-room audience of other scientists that his company had shaken…
“Grateful” and “delighted.” That’s how National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Monica Bertagnolli feels about her 14 months leading the world’s largest biomedical research…
For one small Chinese startup, the U.S. ban on sales of the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) computer chips to Chinese entities was a spur to innovation. DeepSeek, launched in May…
Researchers in Australia have retracted a 2020 nanotechnology study after their institution’s research integrity office found the paper had misappropriated the work of undergraduate…
In early March, veterinarian Barb Peterson noticed the dairy cows she cared for on a Texas farm looked sick and produced less milk, and that it was off-color and thick. Birds and cats on…
In June of last year, Salvador Pineda received an email from a researcher at Zhejiang University in China informing him one of his articles "A robust optimization method for optimizing…
Last month, Shoaib Ahmed Malik, a chemical engineer–turned–theologian, took up a new position at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity, making him one of the few Muslim…
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Iron production, a cornerstone of steel manufacturing, contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 8% of the total. However, a pioneering method devised by…
The International Wound Journal has retracted 242 papers so far this year as part of an ongoing investigation into manipulated peer review. All the retraction notices list manipulated peer…
Last year, in the giving spirit of the holidays, I—your friendly, neighborhood newsletter editor—let my News from Science colleagues take the helm of ScienceAdviser for a…
Drawing on the findings of a sustainability review of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Joanna Ball and Andrea Chiarelli reflect on why funding this type of resource is a…
A groundbreaking exploration into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) offers a multifaceted understanding of this enigmatic ailment. Characterized by debilitating…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already revolutionized the study of how proteins fold up into their 3D shapes, an achievement honored by last year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Now, AI is…
A sinking ship is usually bad news. But not for the Floating Instrument Platform, or R/P FLIP, which sinks its stern and tips 90° to become a vertical platform for ocean…
In July 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, then-President Donald Trump shocked the global health community by announcing the United States would withdraw from the World Health Organization…
Everywhere they go, humans leave stray DNA. Police have used genetic sequences retrieved from cigarette butts and coffee cups to identify suspects; archaeologists have sifted DNA from cave…
Like Schrödinger’s famously dead-and-alive cat, the qubits that underpin quantum computers can exist in two states at once. It seems that one corner of quantum computing research—a…
Picture a strawberry. Most people can easily distinguish between the image in their mind's eye and a real strawberry. Researchers have now identified how the brain makes this distinction…
Bridgetown International University offers an International-Standard Medical Program for MD in Barbados to students worldwide. The program is designed by a team of medical experts…
Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder that gradually leads to difficulty moving, tremors, and usually dementia by the end, is often difficult to diagnose early in its yearslong…
NASA's recent report has cast doubts on the feasibility of a groundbreaking approach to revolutionize energy generation—space-based solar power. While the agency suggests the technology…
In a strategic move to compete with ChatGPT, Microsoft has rebranded its Bing Chat to Copilot. The shift from Bing Chat comes as OpenAI reveals that 100 million users engage with ChatGPT…
When Google announced a 48 percent rise in its climate emissions since 2019, the tech giant pointed to artificial intelligence (AI) as the primary culprit. The expansion of AI technology…
Embark on a seamless journey towards journal excellence with our full-fledged Information Technology (IT) support services. Designed to provide continuous assistance, our comprehensive…
The realm of scholarly publishing has witnessed an unexpected convergence of authorship attribution and funding disclosure with government enforcement efforts, particularly in the context…
Antarctica is a land of not only ice, but fire. More than 100 volcanoes hide beneath the ice sheet or poke through it. One, 3800-meter-high Mount Erebus, seethes menacingly just 40…
What are your chances of getting coronary heart disease? What cancer treatment will you respond best to? The answers likely lie in your DNA. But it’s not your DNA scientists…
New Zealand’s science infrastructure is in for a major shake-up, with key research institutes reorganized and a greater focus on commercialization. Some researchers are cautiously…
The group on the Facebook was founded on September 1, 2020, in response to a series of investigative articles published by Thanh Nien, a leading Vietnamese newspaper. These articles…
In 2021, the provost of the University of Maryland, Baltimore sounded the alarm about a troubling batch of papers from the lab of Richard Eckert, the former chair of the Department of…
After more than 3 years of rallying and union organizing, early-career researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) saw a new contract go into effect this week. The…
Plan S, the effort by European funders to increase the share of journal articles that can be read without a subscription, has had an unintended outcome, a report released today says. It has…
The careful selection of publications for your research is crucial for successfully implementing your publication plan, ensuring timely defenses, and preparing documents for academic…
When clocks across most of the United States “sprang” forward on 9 March to mark the start of daylight saving time, many people woke up feeling groggy, irritable, and like they had just…
A physiatrist in Italy has lost four publications this year after two groups of researchers raised concerns about his research. The physician, Marco Monticone, a professor at the University…
Economists from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently announced that global public debt would soon collectively catch up to the worldwide gross domestic product (GDP), likely…
Last year BMC Public Health had decided to retract the article, "The global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning: estimations based on a systematic review," which…
Astronomers suspect an unusual near-Earth rocky object is not a typical escapee from the Solar System’s asteroid belt, but is instead a chunk of the Moon blasted into space eons ago by a…
London, U.K., February 9, 2023: Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, has…
JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, announced today the release of the first books in Path to Open, a new program designed to affordably and sustainably support the open access…
The recent unexpected triumph of the Party for Freedom (PVV), a far-right political entity led by anti-Islamist Geert Wilders, in the Netherlands has ignited apprehensions within the…
RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA—For the first astronauts to visit Mars, what to eat on their 3-year mission will be one of the most critical questions. It’s not just a matter of taste. According…
The Sage journal American Surgeon has issued a mass expression of concern for 116 articles. The expression of concern states the journal "was made aware" of "concerning author activity" on…
AI chatbots may seem like neutral tools, but a new study from UBC researchers suggests they often contain biases that could shape environmental discourse in unhelpful ways. The paper…
Is the U.S. government quitting on an attempt to cap the National Institutes of Health's “indirect” costs or just moving the fight to a different stage? Today the Trump administration…
Europe’s ambitious plan to reduce pesticide use by 50% by 2030, a key component of the European Green Deal, has been put on hold by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The…
Women’s scientific contributions are often undervalued and cited less often than those of their male counterparts, including in neuroscience, astronomy, medicine—and, according to two…
A recent survey by Cengage Group highlights a significant gap in AI education among college graduates, revealing that the majority believe generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools…
More than 5 million people are bitten by snakes every year, resulting in thousands of deaths and permanent disabilities. Yet despite advances in developing antivenoms, scientists still…
The recent declaration that 2023 marked the hottest year in recorded history came with a surprising revelation: uncertainty about the exact degree of global warming. Divergent findings by…
A researcher at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added their underage child as a coauthor on a paper after the manuscript cleared the agency’s internal review, an investigation…
Until recently, journal hijackers do not appear to have targeted titles from big publishers, in part because their well-known website designs made such clones easy to detect. Earlier this…
As the U.S. gears up for the upcoming presidential election, a new and potent threat emerges in the form of AI-generated deepfakes—fake video and audio clips that could potentially sway…
Over the past year, several major news media companies have entered content licensing partnerships with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. These deals promise attributed summaries of each…
Gravity pulls antimatter down just like ordinary matter, a new experiment shows. The finding won’t shock many physicists. But it does put a damper on some offbeat theories that, in order…
On 21 January, Chris Beyrer, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Duke University, was on a weekly call with about 20 fellow scientists who are running an HIV prevention trial funded by…
In the wake of protests regarding its collaboration with the Israeli government during the Gaza conflict, Google has reportedly fired over 20 additional employees, escalating the total…
A recent paper by researchers from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that while the adoption of AI (Artificial Intelligence) by businesses in the U.S. is still relatively modest, it is rapidly…
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and other effective drugs were elusive, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) emerged as a lifesaving treatment. But now, 3 years later, all the approvals for…
A prestigious prize awarded by Tel Aviv University in Israel has a new name. The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, named after two members of a family now…
Sage has retracted 467 articles from the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, a title it took on when it acquired IOS Press last November for an undisclosed sum. The journal’s editor…
As use cases build in the global research ecosystem around persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research organizations, ORCID has recently increased its financial commitment to the first and…
Have you wanted to publish your monograph for a long time, but did not have enough time? Received an offer to publish, but without guarantees of Scopus indexing? Need to publish in the EU,
When Sam Rodriques was a neurobiology graduate student, he was struck by a fundamental limitation of science. Even if researchers had already produced all the information needed to…
The scorching reality of climate change manifested in 2023 as it secured its position as the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2016 by nearly 0.2°C, according…
After nearly two decades of relentless pursuit, Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser, aptly named "Tenacity," is now undergoing crucial environmental testing at NASA's Neil Armstrong…
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have conducted a groundbreaking study demonstrating the efficacy of using drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AED) in responding to…
“Confounding,” “very unorthodox,” and “very concerning.” That’s how Shahin Huseynov, polio lead for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European region, describes the slew…
Daron Acemoglu wants to make clear right away that he has nothing against artificial intelligence. He gets the potential. "I'm not an AI pessimist," he declares seconds into an interview.
With the far right poised to become the biggest political force in France after this Sunday’s elections, scientists have raised the alarm about what they see as a “grave threat” to…
A premier natural history museum has made hard choices to close a budget gap in its new financial year, which began this month. The 171-year-old California Academy of Sciences (CAS)
In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, researchers from the University of Oxford shed light on the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by analyzing data from the NHS COVID-19 app in…
Is there really such a thing as a “male” or “female” brain? Sex certainly seems to affect a person’s risk of developing various psychiatric and other brain-related…
Engaging in activities like running, cycling, or swimming not only promotes physical well-being but also significantly reduces the risk of premature death and chronic diseases, according to…
At least temporarily staving off what many saw as a crushing blow to U.S. biomedical research, a federal judge yesterday suspended a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to…
In 2021, Ukraine was one of the world’s largest producers of critical crops. It supplied 15% of all corn in the global market and 10% of all wheat. But since Russia’s invasion in…
Evolutionary biologist Natalie Pilakouta thought it would be an easy theory to test: fish living in Iceland’s geothermal hot springs prefer warmer water than do members of the same…
In the article "Citation manipulation through citation mills and pre-print servers" published on February 14, 2025 Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Yasir Zaki та Talal Rahwan examined the 114…
The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation (NSF) since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year…
China’s scientific collaboration with other countries has declined since the pandemic, driven by falling partnerships with the United States, an analysis shows.
Scientists have been…
On Tuesday, PEN America announced that it had organized an unprecedented legal challenge to censorship in Florida classroom libraries along with a coalition of plaintiffs…
More than two dozen international civil society organizations will call on major tech firms to bolster their AI policies to combat "sexist and misogynistic" disinformation plaguing social…
Until 17 June, an application round is open for organizing camps promoting integration and language learning for young people in Estonia and Ukraine. Applications are invited from all…
In a monumental stride for cosmology, a recent report unveils groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), reinforcing the prevailing model of an…
Intuitive Machines' pioneering spacecraft, the Odysseus lander, powered down ahead of schedule due to dwindling power, marking an early end to its historic lunar mission. Launched with $118…
In a controversial move, the West Virginia legislature has passed a bill that allows public school teachers to discuss intelligent design (ID) in the classroom, despite previous legal…
Researchers in Canada are pushing back against a 15% budget cut that Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to impose on most government departments. They argue that reducing spending on…
Recent breakthroughs in gene therapy have demonstrated the potential to restore hearing in children born with specific genetic mutations causing deafness. Eli Lilly & Co. reported…
Alexandra Freeman’s career has already taken one sharp turn: After 16 years as an award-winning science journalist at BBC, in 2016 she moved to academia, where she worked on improving…
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have identified the world's oldest known fragment of fossilized reptile skin, originating from an Oklahoma cave. This remarkable find, detailed in…
Deepfake technology, leveraging artificial intelligence, enables the creation of fabricated videos depicting events that never occurred. This technology is well-suited for spreading…
AI helps find missed meteoritesAntarctica is famously good at preserving meteorites, burying the rocks in snow and ice until they resurface. They often become concentrated in regions of…
Michael Lauer, head of the external grantmaking program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced his retirement, effective tomorrow.
A strange phenomenon has transformed the world scientific system. Suddenly, academic journals that were previously weekly or biweekly have started publishing several special issues each…
Clinical Rotations Program is the final phase of our medical program for MD in Barbados and the most important part of the journey of becoming a doctor. Clinical Sciences Program offers…
A recent study of large-scale empirical analysis (posted on a preprint server) suggested that AI can be a valuable tool in seeking feedback on the quality of published articles after…
The Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS) had retracted 1,561 articles as part of a cleanup operation on likely paper mill activity. The journal, which Sage acquired in November…
Researchers have created the most realistic reconstruction yet of how a vast ice sheet advanced across northwestern Europe starting about 31,000 years ago and then retreated into oblivion,
A major scientific publisher, Taylor & Francis, said yesterday it has paused submissions to its journal Bioengineered so editors there can investigate some 1000 of its…
On 21 September, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced a new twist on the article processing charge (APC) model of funding open-access publishing. Their…
In a recent development, concerns have been raised about a publication in a prominent biological sciences journal (Journal A) that extensively relies on research previously published in a…
They come from factory stacks, car exhaust pipes and cruise liner engines. They are tiny particles and they are all around us. When we breathe in air, these particles settle in the small…
New study will generate insights in the development and progression of the disease in Asia, which could support the development of effective diagnostics and therapies.
Recently was published article A by author group X on journal's website ahead of print publication and subsequently received a formal complaint from author group Y alleging that the paper…
30. mail kell 14–17.30 (Eesti aja järgi) korraldab “Euroopa horisondi” 5. klastri (kliima, energia, mobiilsus) NCP võrgustiku projekt GREENET infopäeva veebis (Teamsis), kus…
A recent study indicates the potential transmission of Alzheimer's disease through brain tissue, linking it to a now-banned hormone therapy. The research focused on individuals in the…
Google bought advertising technology provider AdMeld in 2011 because the search giant saw the startup as a "threat" to its online display ad strategy, antitrust enforcers sought to show at…
Recent research indicates that the impact of fake news on elections intensifies when disseminated steadily over time without interruption, a study using generative AI models reveals.
On October 6, the Ministers of Education of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Vice Ministers of Poland and the Czech Republic participated in a plenary meeting at the Vasyl Stefanyk…
A groundbreaking report delves into the strategies and progress of nations worldwide in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into science and research, shedding light on advancements…
In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Konstanz have achieved a remarkable feat: capturing the operations of ultrafast electronic…
A proposed lithium mine in Jadar, Serbia, has generated fresh controversy after scientists affiliated with the mining company Rio Tinto called for the retraction of a paper that claims the…
Several experts who track down problems in studies told AFP that the rise of AI has turbocharged the existing problems in the multi-billion-dollar sector. All the experts emphasised that AI…
Few things prompt as much anxiety in science and the wider world as the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rising influence of China. This spring, these two factors created…
In a groundbreaking revelation, a recent analysis of earthquake waves and gas emissions has unveiled a potential seismic shift beneath the Himalayas. The collision between the Indian and…
The United States unveiled Thursday a framework to address national security risks posed by artificial intelligence, a year after President Joe Biden issued an executive order on regulating…
Vaping, initially introduced as a potentially safer alternative to traditional smoking, has witnessed a surge in popularity among unintended users—adolescents. A study published in…
As a young boy growing up in the Netherlands in the 1990s, Sander van der Linden learned that most of his mother’s relatives, who were Jewish, had been killed by the Nazis, in the grip of…
Both publishers criticized the move, first reported in Times Higher Education, as lacking transparency and seeming to target fully open-access publishers.
As emergency managers in southern Ukraine evacuate people there from disastrous flooding caused by this week’s mysterious breach of a major dam, conservation scientists are pondering the…
In the past seven years, global research output has skyrocketed by nearly 50%, with a staggering 2.8 million new studies published in 2022 alone. However, concerns are growing about the…
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software program released today by Google DeepMind offers scientists a potent new tool to predict how proteins work. Whereas earlier versions of the…
In a startling turn of events, the year 2023 has set a new record with more than 10,000 research papers retracted, surpassing annual records and raising concerns about the integrity of…
The small plastic chip etched with channels is a synthetic human organ—and one vision of future drug safety testing. Inside, layers of human liver, epithelial, and immune cells line the…
The FinELib consortium is engaged in negotiations with seven scholarly journal publishers, driven by the aim to achieve significant cost reductions and enhanced value for higher education…
The wave that is open science is continuing to grow and is bringing science and research to within reach of all levels of society. People who are interested in helping to solve some of the…
When German journalist Martin Bernklau typed his name and location into Microsoft's Copilot to see how his articles would be picked up by the chatbot, the answers horrified…
A prominent TikTok influencer and former lab technician at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, has confessed to taking "several shortcuts" resulting in falsified data in work funded by the…
While on a family vacation in 2018, Jenny Suckale was rambling across an old Hawaiian lava flow when an abrupt change in the jet-black rocks caught her eye. On one side was the smooth,
Apple's recent unveiling of the Vision Pro virtual-reality (VR) headset has sent ripples through the scientific community, sparking discussions on its potential implications for research…
One of the publisher’s journals has received a paper which lists a coauthor who died in 2022. The paper was incomplete at the time of his death but he and the corresponding author had…
"The Task Force will review the more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the Federal Government. The review also includes the more than $8.7bn in…
Researchers at the University of Tartu are developing a small, spider-like robot designed to perform delicate movements with enhanced dexterity. This innovative project, inspired by the…
Conventional wisdom often emphasizes healthy eating and increased physical activity as the primary solutions for combating obesity. However, recent research suggests that overlooking the…
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An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Thursday it had fined professional networking platform LinkedIn 310 million euros ($335 million) over breaching users'
Rena D’Souza, director of the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), has been on paid administrative leave since April during a probe into allegations about…
In a significant development, Michelle Donelan, the Science Minister of the United Kingdom, has agreed to pay damages in a libel complaint filed by an academic she publicly accused of…
For paleontologists studying the Miocene period in South America, which started about 23 million years ago and saw mammals diversifying in a warming world, a simple building in the town of…
Roughly one-third of all U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved medicines, with collective annual sales of nearly $200 billion, target a single family of cell membrane proteins,
Modern science is hard, complex, and built from many layers and many years of hard work. And modern science, almost everywhere, is based on computation. Save for a few (and I mean very few)
In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly communication, the need for journals to be indexed in reputable databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, COPE, DOAJ, MedLine, and PubMed is…
In a fascinating journey back to the late 19th century, researchers are delving into the origins of a forgotten pandemic, the "Russian influenza" epidemic of 1889. Initially believed to be…
Patients with a type of liver cancer known as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) often face an anxious wait after their tumor is removed. In up to half of these people, the cancer will return…
This Saturday, May 18, Tartu's Toome Hill will unveil a unique installation that merges art and science, specifically genetics, in a fascinating symbiosis. Titled "Lifesaver," this…
Journalists have revealed that nine scientists in Japan co-authored journal articles with North Korean researchers in recent years, possibly violating U.N. sanctions that bar scientific…
A case of mistaken identity among sharks has led to a correction that changed, among other content, an article’s title, its abstract and the discussion section. Corrected article title:
Researchers have long sought to harness the power of light for computing, aiming to achieve higher speeds and lower energy consumption compared to traditional electronic systems. Optical…
President Joe Biden's proposed $7.3 trillion spending blueprint for the fiscal year 2025 includes his administration's research priorities. However, amidst flat budgets and previous…
President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Retracted publications can still receive a substantial number of citations after the retraction. Little is known about the causes for this phenomenon and the nature of epistemic risk or…
More than 30 university presses and hundreds of authors are part of Path to Open, a new program that supports the publishing of open access scholarly monographs. The first 100 books…
A deluge of bizarre computer-generated images swept Elon Musk's social platform X last week—including violent, offensive and sexually suggestive content. In one, Trump piloted a…
Our healthcare systems collect information about human biology and clinical practice at an increasing rate. It has been estimated that by 2020 the available medical information doubled…
A controversy has emerged as Orchid Health, a U.S. company, announces its plan to offer fertility clinics a service that sequences the whole genomes of embryos conceived through in vitro…
Digital change is no longer the future — it’s our present.The monograph highlights how innovative technologies influence economic systems, transform business approaches, management…
Lithium, often referred to as "white gold," is crucial for powering everything from smartphones to large-scale energy storage systems. Despite its abundance, the rapid growth of electric…
For a few precious minutes during a solar eclipse, the Moon blots out the disk of the Sun, revealing its wispy outer atmosphere, or corona. On 4 November, NASA plans to launch the Coronal…
After almost nine years working in a university research office, shepherding approximately 1,000 applications through to submission, I have witnessed many researchers make the same…
Whether artificial intelligence is seen as friend or foe, it is undoubtedly transforming various aspects of our work, including how we discover content, information, and knowledge. In our…
The international adult skills survey PIAAC starts today, the aim of which is to collect information about people's everyday skills such as reading and mathematical literacy, information…
A recent study highlights the pivotal role of managerial engagement in leveraging "smart utility meters" to enhance energy efficiency and reduce costs in manufacturing operations. Conducted…
Many universities around the world pay academics to publish their research. A recent study in South Africa, though, suggests they should be cautious of such practices. The country’s…
CALI, COLOMBIA— In 1992, when more than 150 nations agreed to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), a landmark global pact aimed at protecting the environment, the iPhone didn’t…
On 12 September, a vaccine advisory group to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) once again will wrestle with the question of who in the United States should receive a…
The U.S. House of Representatives has released preliminary spending bills for the 2025 fiscal year that contain grim news for science agencies. The National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s)
In a surprising turn of events, evidence reveals that a Chinese research team submitted the SARS-CoV-2 genome to a U.S. database on December 28, 2019, almost two weeks before another…
Although theories abound, there is still no clear explanation for how infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to lingering difficulty concentrating, problems with attention and memory, and other,
Who needs scientists anyway? A global consortium of six automated laboratories, overseen by artificial intelligence (AI), set out to produce new laser materials, dividing the labor from…
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering limiting postdoctoral researchers to a maximum of five years of financial support from the agency. The idea is a bid to…
ResearchGate and Emerald Publishing have joined forces in a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing journal readership and visibility through the integration of Journal Home. ResearchGate,
The Israeli parliament’s decision last month to give a hefty budget increase to religious schools that often do not teach science and math is drawing criticism from the nation’s…
In a groundbreaking study published on November 6 in Cell Reports Physical Science, researchers introduced a machine-learning tool capable of discerning chemistry papers authored by the…
From 22 to 28 January, representatives from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Ukrainian universities visited several Estonian universities and research and development…
Agitating snakes isn’t something most of us would do on purpose, but for a group of researchers, it was central to their research. The authors of a May 2024 paper in Scientific Reports…
I would like to thank Paul Cockburn, our Journals Publishing Assistant, for his work on the detailed findings below. I have summarized his evidence.
The hijacked idpr.org.uk (hIDPR) was…
How do you encourage a skeptical public to support a new policy? New research by Georgia State University economist Stefano Carattini and his co-authors suggests that experience with a…
Karen Rech, a hematopathologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was reading a case report about a rare disease when she recognized the patient. Although the authors of the paper were…
Author X is concerned with similarities or parallels between his manuscript, rejected in 2008, and a recently published article. "I have looked over our file and contacted the associate…
Elisabeth Bik did not start out her career as a vigilante. In fact, for many years, she was a microbiologist, studying human microbiomes. But then, one evening in the early 2010s, she was…
China has recently revised its catalog of journals flagged as untrustworthy, predatory, or incompatible with the interests of the Chinese research community. Dubbed the "Early Warning…
In 2022, Guillaume Cabanac noticed something unusual: a study had attracted more than 100 citations in a short span of less than two months of being published. The paper has since been…
AlphaFold, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence tool, is making waves in the field of predictive medicine with its remarkable ability to accurately predict intricate protein structures. A…
A panel’s recommendations earlier this year to tighten U.S. rules for funding research on dangerous pathogens sparked concerns that some of the changes would hamper routine…
Crossref, a nonprofit focused on metadata of scholarly publications, has suspended the membership of a company linked to websites which copied the appearance of journals belonging to…
As the world continues to grapple with the effects of COVID-19, researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding one of the virus's lesser-known symptoms: sneezing. The study, led…
Quito, Ecuador—The recent outbreak of criminal violence in Ecuador, marked by car bombings, shootings, arson, and prison riots, has not only plunged the nation into chaos but has also…
The think tank Praxis conducted a study commissioned by the Estonian Education and Youth Board to map future scenarios for the youth field in Estonia by 2030. According to the study, the…
When University of Seville researcher Maria Ángeles Oviedo‑García began to look at the peer reviews some journals publish alongside their papers, she was surprised to see the same…
An interdisciplinary journal, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, is taking "corrective actions" following an investigation revealing that ChatGPT was used to update references in…
The Journal of Biotechnologytitle Elsevier has retracted a 22-year-old-paper"A recombinant H1 histone based system for efficient delivery of nucleic acids". Sleuth Sholto David, who goes by…
When Rene Aquarius began a review of potential stroke treatments last year, he was shocked. His initial search of the literature on drug candidates for treating hemorrhagic stroke found…
The White House's prolonged deliberation over implementing new research security regulations has drawn scrutiny, leaving the scientific community in limbo amidst mounting concerns over…
As technology rapidly advances, Australia's music industry faces a significant threat from AI-generated music, which could impact the careers of musicians and the viability of the live…
Nearly two dozen journals from two of the fastest growing open-access publishers, including one of the world’s largest journals by volume, will no longer receive a key scholarly…
The United States may be a global powerhouse in biomedical research. But although its scientists win Nobel Prizes and its companies churn out new drugs, the country is still saddled with…
The PRC Short Course is for users from Research4Life eligible countries. Other users may be able to access the recordings from the Research4Life site in the future.
In her first year at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Katharina "Kat" Schmolly, MD, learned a popular medical adage: "When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras." The…
As large language models have continued to rise in prominence, many users and companies have focused on their useful ability to quickly summarize lengthy documents for easier…
The University of the West Indies Press (UWI Press) recently launched Caribbean Trade, Integration and Development – Selected Papers and Speeches of Alister McIntyre (Vols. 1 &
It’s a dismaying thought during a holiday season full of cookies and big meals, but severely restricting calories consumed is one of the best supported strategies for a healthier, longer…
According to a “Publisher’s Note” that appeared November 9 in Elsevier’s New Microbes and New Infections, “concerns have been raised about a number of articles” published in the…
Just like humans, artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of saying it isn’t racist, but then acting as if it were. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT4 output racist stereotypes…
Under the patronage of His Excellency Ali Al Baqali, Chief Executive Officer of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) and Vice-Chairman of Bahrain Polytechnic’s Board of Trustees, Bahrain…
A recent analysis reveals a disconcerting trend where mathematicians from institutions in China, Saudi Arabia, and other regions are artificially inflating their colleagues' citation counts…
In an unexpected turn of events, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck Japan on New Year's Day, claiming over 160 lives, was preceded by a mysterious and prolonged seismic swarm on the…
Discussing their analysis of a new dataset of journals published via the Open Journals Systems publishing platform, Saurabh Khanna, Jon Ball, Juan Pablo Alperin and
For Koichi Itagaki, it was just another evening of supernova hunting. After his usual 7 p.m. dinner with his wife, he drove to his private observatory in the hills above his home in…
Scientists in Singapore have done research on additional preventive measures against the COVID-19 virus. One of these studies examined how proper ventilation in…
Estonian digital transformation expertise has reached 16 countries across three continents, supported by European Union funding totaling €79 million. In collaboration with Estonian IT…
Within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Estonian School of Diplomacy (ESD),
In July 2022, Evie Fachon was aboard the research vessel Norseman II searching for tiny but dangerous creatures lurking off the Alaskan coast. As the vessel approached the Bering…
The European Commission has proposed making gene-edited plants much easier to study and commercialize. Scientists welcomed this week’s draft proposal, which aims to accelerate…
The rector of the University of Salamanca (USal), Spain’s oldest and one of its most prestigious institutions, is under fire for allegedly engineering vast numbers of citations to his own…
The European Union (EU) announced on Monday that Apple's iPad operating system, iPadOS, will be subjected to more stringent regulations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), aimed at…
In response to a substantial surge in the number of articles published in special issues and growing inconsistencies in processes, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has announced…
Supporters of research integrity have signed a new declaration calling for data-driven forensics – known as Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) – to lead the charge in detecting, exposing…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is set to receive an essentially flat budget of $47.1 billion for the fiscal year 2024, as outlined in the final spending bill expected to pass…
Early-career academics are facing an increasing squeeze in the hunt for tenure-track positions and funding—and despite widespread discussion, solutions have proved evasive. Now, a new…
Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a National IQ database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. It has drawn criticism for the…
People often go great lengths to earn a reward—no pain, no gain, as the saying goes. A new study published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests that many…
Official educational materials aimed at teaching India’s students about Chandrayaan-3, the nation’s third lunar exploration mission, are drawing sharp criticism from some of the…
An Elsevier journal has retracted a paper authored by two senior economists after it was discovered that they had replaced significant portions of missing data in their dataset using…
Rapid COVID-19 tests gave many people a firsthand appreciation for the value of quick and cheap diagnostics. Now, researchers have shown how to conduct thousands of rapid molecular…
Imagine a thin wristband that monitors your steps and heartbeat like an Apple Watch. Or clothing that keeps you cool with built-in air conditioning. Or even a flexible implant that could…
The Trump administration has ended several U.S. science agencies’ subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, including the prestigious Nature titles. The move, which will end…
The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world's first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence, comes into force.
The AI Act is designed to ensure…
A professor in France who plagiarized extensively in a review article and then blamed the offense on an undisclosed medical writer will lose the publication.
Kulapis, 12 AUGUST - Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA) through the Faculty of Agriculture has held the Ihya Az-Zira'ah Program for two days from August 12, 2022 until August 13,
Earlier this year, Milen Zamfirov, dean of the faculty of educational sciences at Sofia University in Bulgaria, was named an exceptional scientist in the social sciences and humanities. As…
Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said Monday that the messaging platform had removed more "problematic content", weeks after his arrest in France on charges of failing to…
On 12 July 2023, Science Advances published the Research Article “Unemployment and underemployment are causes of suicide,” by Adam Skinner et al. On 20 July 2023, an Editorial…
Estonian startup UP Catalyst, a spin-off of the University of Tartu, has successfully raised €4 million in funding. The funds will be utilized to scale up the production of carbon…
A former Cambridge University student has accused her PhD adviser of stealing her work. Magdalen Connolly, an alumna of Cambridge’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, claims…
The long trek toward practical fusion energy passed a milestone last week when the world’s newest and largest fusion reactor fired up. Japan’s JT-60SA uses magnetic fields from…
In March, Joanna Sadler, an organic chemist at the University of Edinburgh, received an unusual email. It promised £35,000 to advance her research—no strings attached.
In a groundbreaking development, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have unveiled a novel battery design harnessing a commonplace chemical used…
FinELib, the Finnish Electronic Library consortium, is set to conclude seven of its current journal agreements by the close of 2023. While negotiations are underway for new agreements, the…
For the first time in 2 decades, Argentina’s scientific community is experiencing substantial job losses and funding cuts as a result of austerity policies imposed by President Javier…
A groundbreaking study published in Nature Computational Science reveals that an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, akin to fortune-telling, can predict life outcomes, including…
The rector of the University of Salamanca (USal), Spain’s oldest and one of its most prestigious institutions, is under fire for allegedly engineering vast numbers of citations to his own…
On November 12, 2024 Richard Addante, an associate editor at the journalFrontiers in Psychology, received an alarming email from someone purporting to be a faculty member at a university in…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast-tracking the design of new proteins that could serve as drugs, vaccines, and other therapies. But that promise comes with fears that the same tools…
At NASA, officials are moving quickly to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order directing agencies to cease funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. NASA…
A groundbreaking advancement in laser fusion technology has emerged, offering a simpler and potentially more cost-effective approach to generating fusion energy. Researchers at the…
A team with Robyn M. Gleasner and Akshay Sood conducted a study that aimed aims to enhance the understanding of the role ofspecial issues in the evolving landscape of academic publishing,
Psychology research from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries, especially from the United States, receives more scientific attention than research from…
China is set to fire up a powerful new x-ray light source that will reveal the atomic-scale structure of proteins and materials. By the end of December, operators expect light to begin to…
Canada’s three major national research agencies will no longer fund proposals from scientists doing “sensitive research” that involves foreign collaborators deemed to pose a security…
International Wound Journal, a Wiley title, has retracted 27 papers since June 2024 with notices mentioning “manipulated” or “compromised” peer review.
The editor-in-chief of a journal updated a retraction notice to acknowledge the data in the paper were "completely plagiarized" following allegations in a letter to the editor. The original…
In Wisconsin, a recent legislative proposal aiming to prohibit research that could potentially enhance the danger of human pathogens has sparked worries among scientists. The bill,
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have uncovered a groundbreaking discovery regarding a gene that is prevalent in 75% of the human population. Known as CHRFAM7A, this gene has long…
At ENLIGHT’s online workshop on academic careers on 14 June from 15 to 16:30, Professor Ingrid Molema from the University of Groningen will give advice on how to…
A new study has found that intelligence, in the form of general cognitive abilities such as perception, thinking and remembering, is more important than hitherto thought at predicting a…
The potential ban of the popular social media platform TikTok in the United States has sent shockwaves through the science communication community, leaving creators and educators uncertain…
NASA’s announcement yesterday that it would kill its $600 million VIPER lunar rover, even after it had been fully assembled, shows how the agency’s budget for planetary…
Record Number of Retractions: Over 10,000 Scientific Papers Retracted in 2023
In 2023, the scientific community faced an alarming crisis: over 10,000 scientific papers were retracted, and…
Last month, the editorial board for the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), one of the premier journals covering paleoanthropology, resigned en masse in a dispute with its…
"Efficacy and risk of sexual orientation change efforts: a retrospective analysis of 125 exposed men", published in F1000Research in March 2021, found conversion therapy (referred to in the…
Images created by a plethora of high-tech instruments are widely found in scientific research as both illustrations and sources of data. Recent advancements in light (or optical) microscopy…
Deep budget cuts have begun to cripple Argentina’s once ambitious nuclear research and development programs. Once-thriving construction sites are dormant, and engineers with years of…
When looking at the news, it seems like we stepped into an episode of the Twilight Zone where things that were not possible (or at least not easily done) in the past seem relatively trivial…
During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped more than 8 million tons of bombs and sprayed 74 million liters of Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam, Cambodia, and…
