Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research. By Emily Anthes In the spring of 2019, a nature photographer hiking in the ...

To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical ...

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An autonomous AI system has written a scientific paper from scratch and cleared the first round of peer review at a workshop for the International Conference on Learning Representations, one of the ...

Adopting a targeted, multi-pass reading approach to research studies can help you efficiently locate and extract the information you’re looking for while identifying potential limitations. Reading a ...

Research papers that list Chinese institutions account for more than half of the retractions across 10 academic publishers, ...

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Have you ever come across a research paper that is so dense it becomes overwhelming to get information from it? At times, you might find yourself buried under a pile of textbooks and journal articles ...

Pollutants can harm human health and enter the body through the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they ...

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 ...