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Nature talks to Sholto David about his process for flagging image manipulation and his tips for scientists under scrutiny.

The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two...

Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.

Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ.

Neuron activity shows that the brain uses different systems for counting up to four, and for five or more....

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman developed immunizations amid an unprecedented pandemic at record-breaking speed.

Models trained on large data sets of seismic events can estimate the number of aftershocks better than conventional models do.

npj Vaccines - Duration of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine persistence and factors associated with cardiac involvement in recently vaccinated patients

Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention....

Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture.

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Companies making cultured meat are attracting billions of dollars of investment. Here are their biggest challenges....

While satellite-based global navigation systems have become essential tools in our daily lives, their effectiveness is often hampered by the fact that the signals cannot be accessed in underground, indoor, or underwater environments. Recently, a novel navigation system has been invented to address this issue by utilizing the...

Women diagnosed since 2010 have a much lower risk of dying than those diagnosed in the 1990s.

"We show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced, and suggest that this illusion has implications for research on the misallocation of scarce resources, the underuse of social support and social influence."...

Layman's explanation: This sounds like it could a huge step forward in fighting cancer! While this result is bound to only be applicable and practical for a subset of tumors, it gives rise to the possibility of a new or existing drug that can weaken tumors and make them easier to fight....