To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or predicting protein shapes. But now, the technology ...

In Part 1 of this series, we presented evidence that a not insignificant amount of published science and the “knowledge” resulting from it is wrong. There are many reasons, including experimental ...

Papers, patents, and clinical trials are essential scientific resources in biomedicine, crucial for knowledge sharing and dissemination. However, these documents are often stored in disparate ...

The release of ChatGPT in late 2022 has coincided with a growing number of reports describing the presence of large language model (LLM)-generated content in scientific manuscripts 1,2 and peer review ...

When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in scientific journals for others to read. This sharing of knowledge helps to advance science: it ...

Research into nicotine use by young Aussies and a study on an Eastern gray kangaroo pox virus have something in common. A retraction is when a published scientific paper is deemed flawed or unreliable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of ...

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking. That ...

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...

Two artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can assist throughout multiple processes involved in scientific research — such as generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and analysing data — are ...