Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research. By Emily Anthes In the spring of 2019, a nature photographer hiking in the ...

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To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical ...

Systemic candidiasis is an opportunistic fungal infection that has been difficult to treat effectively. Research published in ...

Adopting a targeted, multi-pass reading approach to research studies can help you efficiently locate and extract the information you’re looking for while identifying potential limitations. Reading a ...

The number of scientific papers is growing so rapidly that scientists are no longer able to keep track of all of them, even ...

Pollutants can harm human health and enter the body through the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they ...

A paper built entirely by artificial intelligence did not arrive with a flashy headline. At its core, the study delivers a surprisingly flat result: a promising technique that does nothing to improve ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...