General Electric researcher C. D. Graham wrote the following Glossary for Research Reports in a 1957 issue of Metal Progress. Thanks are due to The Science Magpie for assistance with the post and to ...

To stay up to date and work forward in their fields, scientists must have at their fingertips and in their minds thousands of published studies. Large language models (LLMs) show promise as a tool for ...

“I found a new beginning by thinking about plants and animals,” Philippa Foot said of her attempts to reinvigorate virtue ethics. Now, there’s another thing to add to her list. Now, as we accustom ...

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds ...

A custom AI language model developed by researchers at UW and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) can synthesize scientific literature and cite sources at a level comparable to human experts, according ...

Hanss is part of an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, chemists, historians, conservators, and materials scientists ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

A new machine learning tool has identified more than 250,000 cancer research papers that may have been produced by so-called "paper mills." Developed by QUT researcher Professor Adrian Barnett, from ...

On a frigid Norwegian afternoon earlier this month, Dan Quintana, a psychology professor at the University of Oslo, decided to stay in and complete a tedious task that he had been putting off for ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a ...