Autonomous AI research agent Primus, launched today by four-person startup Transformer Lab, produced 30 papers in 30 days and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; photo via Getty Images) Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a ...

The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century That was right on the money. The influence of Köhler and Milstein’s paper ...

Your toilet paper might give you cancer, according to scientists. Experts from the University of Florida warn that your toilet paper could contain toxic “forever chemicals,” also known as per- and ...

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 See more of our coverage in your search ...

An illustration of coins going into a machine that produces paper with chemical structures on it. Paper mills charge academics to add their names to a research paper that is already accepted for ...

Not a fan of those paper straws that have replaced disposable plastic ones in the name of being eco-friendly? As it turns out, some of those efforts to save the environment may have been in vain. A ...

Marc Tessier-Lavigne told shareholders in 2009 that his research would “turn our current understanding of Alzheimer’s upside down.” Now, the former Stanford president and his co-authors have retracted ...

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 ...

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 ...