The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a large scale, with some unethical researchers colluding with unethical editors to attain the prestige that comes with publication ...

An organised underground network of individuals and groups is enabling fraudulent research and increasingly undermining the integrity of science, an alarming new study warns. Researchers from ...

Artificial intelligence promises to accelerate scientific discovery and open new frontiers of inquiry. But new research from ...

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 ...

Demand has risen for the EB-1A visa, creating a cottage industry of services for vanity awards, ghostwritten research papers ...

An analysis of over 41 million research papers from the past 40 years has revealed that researchers who use artificial ...

Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and ...

“Can you imagine eating toxic waste for breakfast?” Science magazine asked in a 2010 press release touting a newly discovered microbe controversially claimed to “live and grow entirely off arsenic.” ...

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 ...