Scientific retractions remain rare but have become increasingly common. We set out to explore whether gender disparities in the likelihood of having retractions exist, both among highly-cited authors and among all authors with ≥ 5 publications.

If AI is making access to knowledge less scarce, what role to do universities have in delivering it?

AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

Looking at what people search for online reveals what South Africans think about environment issues over the last twenty years.

Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here's how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.

Research committee MEPs are concerned about potential conflicts of interest in councils intended to set priorities

Offer of associate EU membership opens the door to new trans-Atlantic relationships in Horizon Europe, Erasmus+ and beyond

One-fifth of data sets intended to support replication breached privacy standards, study finds

Following controversy over a mathematics breakthrough claimed by OpenAI, funders grapple with how to make sure proposals stay confidential.

Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.

Europe already has much of the data it needs to better predict and fight wildfires. The challenge is making this fragmented data work together.

The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.

This study assessed trends in data accessibility, compliance with Data availability statements (DAS), and the relationship between data sharing and citation impact in oceanographic research.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH's institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

Prioritising long-term strategic investment in the Arctic requires courage, but it is a choice Europe cannot afford to postpone.

Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.

A leading ocean scientist sees opportunities to expand cooperation amid efforts to hinder research
 

In recent weeks Sage has retracted batches of articles published in two journals it acquired from IOS Press in 2023.

This past July, computer scientists across the US were granted temporary relief when a federal court blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its unconstitutional policy of censorship at the border.