Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old ...

A team of computer scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a new artificial intelligence platform that automatically seeks out “questionable” scientific journals. The study, ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have unveiled an AI-powered system designed to expose predatory scientific journals—those that trick scientists into paying for publication without ...

I find myself wondering at times how ethically distressing content could appear in a highly respected scientific journal. For example, an incendiary essay criticizing efforts to increase diversity in ...

Kevin L. Young donated to a PAC during the current election, focusing on voter mobilization. Bernhard Leidner receives funding from the National Science Foundation for his current work on COVID-19 and ...

Last spring, I joined a rebellion. The entire editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage, of which I was a member, resigned after its publisher refused to take steps to ease the ...

The rush for scientific cures and treatments for Covid-19 has opened the floodgates of direct communication between scientists and the public. Instead of waiting for their work to go through the slow ...

The Trump administration’s attack on scientific institutions has been characteristically audacious: Eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded healthcare interventions and ...

The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter this week to the editor of a scientific journal for chest doctors, implying that the journal was partisan and asking a series of ...

These days, much online prose feels generic—flattened voice, repeated language, and similar punctuation. AI may now be infiltrating science journals These days, so much prose online is generic. There ...

Merlin Crossley receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. He works at UNSW Sydney, and is on the Trust of the Australian Museum, the ...