Driven by a fascination with bacteria, microbiologist Julie Kopczyńska has trawled through existing research on the gut ...

The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly ...

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale, and ...

W hen it comes to spreadsheets, many think Excel is the only game in town. But what if I told you there is a powerful, free ...

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, “Ockham’s razor” has shaped scientific decisions for ...

If you are getting enough sleep at night consistently but are still not sleeping well or waking up feeling rested, it may be ...

Ah, the poor calculator: so plain, yet so essential, like the Swiss Army knife of the academic world. The thing is, as I have now learned, not all calculators are created equal. So let me now take you ...

A sexy calculator? You’ve got to be kidding. Though indisputably necessary, it’s hard even to remember a time when they existed. Today we just instinctively tap an app on our phone for some ...

TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission in what is thought to be an instance of ...

Many times I’ve seen a scientist, especially at the beginning of their career, choose to follow a dodgy but published procedure when an unpublished alternative is going to be better. It can be quite ...

What it means to be good — or not — is the infected wound at the center of Aria Aber’s debut novel, “Good Girl.” The narrator is a forlorn young woman named Nila Haddadi, and the story ...