A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

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A new Northwestern University study suggests scientific fraud is no longer limited to isolated cases, but increasingly driven by coordinated global networks that manipulate publishing systems. Using ...

Achal Agrawal founded the India Research Watch (IRW) after his observations of grave academic misconduct in India. Dr. Agrawal, now a freelance data scientist in Raipur, told scientific journal Nature ...

In March 2024, the journal BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health published a paper describing how regular consumption of apple cider vinegar could help patients lose weight, lower serum cholesterol ...

What characteristics drive scientific discovery? Experience is often seen as key, with success coming from years of knowledge building and collaboration. This is certainly true for most Nobel Prize ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it in their work.

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