AI paper mills now show up in nearly one in ten cancer research papers screened by machine learning, a 2026 BMJ study found, prompting France's CNRS to cancel commercial database contracts and warn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; photo via Getty Images) Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a ...

An illustration of coins going into a machine that produces paper with chemical structures on it. Paper mills charge academics to add their names to a research paper that is already accepted for ...

A December report suggests cardboard and paper landfilled in 2019 represents $4 billion in lost economic value; says U.S. paper recycling rate below 40 percent. A December report from the U.S.

More than 3,000 scientific article titles across disciplines have made use of Beatles song titles and lyrics, according to a ...

Cancer research articles with telltale signs of being produced by paper mills garner double the number of citations than do genuine papers in the field, finds an analysis of tens of thousands of ...

Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

A journal found 'serious flaws' in research behind viral claims of an underground city beneath the Giza pyramids.

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study ...

The research is testing whether the material can be mixed with wood pulp to make paper-based packaging with stronger ...

Smartphones and tablets make it easy to compile lists and take notes. But if you actually want to remember that information, a new study suggests, you should write it down on paper. A study of ...