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The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics recently, but fake news is not at all new in the world of science.
New technologies could make the scientific review process more objective and accurate — but some worry about the risks of letting computers determine what gets published.
Q&A with Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society at Arizona State University.
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.
The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators
Lessons to US scientists in how to protect scientific integrity under US President Donald Trump.
Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.
MIT’s Kate Darling, who writes the rules of human-robot interaction, says an AI-enabled apocalypse should be the least of our concerns.
We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.
Soft skills like teamwork and communication could boost undergraduates' career prospects.
Diverse approaches suit different goals.
Proposing a new kind of paper that combines the flexibility of basic research with the rigour of clinical trials.
How to prevent, diagnose, and treat the five diseases of academic publishing.
A solution to fix the replication crisis in science: why do scientists not simply sell what they learn from their research?
Scientists ought to address the needs and employment prospects of taxpayers who have seen little benefit from scientific advances.
Reading a scientific paper is not the same as understanding Shakespeare.
Data-centric science is emerging in concert with calls for increased openness in research.
In February 2017, when Elsevier were accused of selling one paid-for hybrid open access article, at first they sowed doubt about it, then three days later admitted it to be true.
Funders, scientists, and journal editors will continue to play vital roles in defining a communication system that embraces both modern technology and the human need for curation.
Think the current fake news issue is bad? It won’t get any better with AI.