It's a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

The scientific method is a tried and true framework for solving scientific problems, but it applies to your personal life too ...

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his ...

The executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” seeks to restore a higher standard for scientific research and ...

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: “vegetative electron microscopy”. This phrase, which sounds technical but is actually nonsense, has ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and phenylethylamine derivatives (NBOHs and NBOMes) are commonly found on seized blotter papers, posing public health risks. Efficient screening methods for ...

The CommonCrawl dataset, for example, is millions of gigabytes in size. For most researchers outside large tech companies, the computing resources required to work at this scale are inaccessible.

In the blog post, Sakana admits that its AI occasionally made “embarrassing” citation errors, for example incorrectly attributing a method to a 2016 paper instead of the original 1997 work.

Climate change and global pandemics are extreme examples of how science intersects with society. Journalists also popularize the small advances from across the scientific world. Academic research ...

Here again, there are plenty of examples of peer review online on sites such as openreview.net that can guide how to critique a paper. LLMs have ingested these, too. AI may be a poor judge of AI ...