Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

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 ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

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

Systemic candidiasis is an opportunistic fungal infection that has been difficult to treat effectively. Research published in ...

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

A paper built entirely by artificial intelligence did not arrive with a flashy headline. At its core, the study delivers a surprisingly flat result: a promising technique that does nothing to improve ...

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 ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new ...

A new study suggests that the federal government's cutbacks to scientific research funding could result in a long-term reduction in GDP. The Trump administration’s wide-spread reductions in funding ...