Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...

Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

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

Publishing peer review files at Nature has been optional since 2020; starting Monday, it is now automatic.

The paper mill problem is “absolutely huge,” said Sabina Alam, director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at Taylor & ...

Scientific papers are often structured chronologically, thus reflecting the progression of the research project. Still, effective papers typically break the chronology in several ways to present ...

Earlier this year, we spotted a forthcoming study which reported that levels of taurine did not consistently decline with age. But we knew Science had published research on this topic in 2023 that ...

The mpox paper had undergone months of peer review at a scientific journal as well as extensive internal review at the CDC. It received final acceptance in January and was in page proofs when the ...

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

“History shows that successful international environmental treaties are possible, as long as they have teeth,” says co-author ...