The project for which Hulsebos received the grant is called DataLibra, which runs from 2024 to 2029. Over those five years, ...

Over the past few days, I have been in full marathon reading mode while working on a chapter on AI and assessment. As part of my reference mining and snowballing, I came across a set of research ...

What happened: A big new global study just dropped, and it shows that AI has pretty much taken over the world of academic research. Why this is important: But here’s the interesting twist: most ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged more than 250,000 cancer studies that bear textual similarities to articles that are known to have been ...

According to a report by The Washington Post, scientists with the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water were ordered by "political appointees" to stop work on studies that were headed for ...

Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

For more than a century, the humble fruit fly has paved the way for many critical scientific breakthroughs. This tiny insect helped researchers figure out that X-rays can cause genetic mutations. That ...

Researchers at Northwestern University said the number of junk scientific publications is growing, and bad actors are profiting. "These people are ruining it for all of us," said Northwestern ...

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 For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

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 ...

Hidden AI Prompts Trick Academics Into Giving Research Papers Only Positive Comments Your email has been sent Researchers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries hid AI prompts in their ...

Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. Nikkei Asia reports that ...