Scientists use jargon and complicated language to describe their work. Regular folks ‘get it’ more when descriptions are simpler – and think better of the researchers themselves.

USC professor Berislav Zlokovic is on leave after whistleblowers cast doubt on his published work and derailed trials for an experimental stroke treatment.

From scientists manipulating figures to the mass production of fake papers by paper mills, problematic manuscripts have long ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a machine learning framework that uses limited water quality samples to predict which inorganic pollutants are likely to be present in a ...

The group neglected to fully document key aspects of the project ahead of running the experiments, one of the practices the ...

New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today's biggest ...

Obesity causes insulin resistance by increasing activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the release of the stress hormone norepinephrine, according to a new study.

In the sprawling project, scientists in four labs designed and tested experiments and then tried to replicate one another’s work. The intention, according to the study, was to test methods aimed ...

Few can fail to sympathise with the dozens of Rhesus macaques that made a break from captivity in a Carolina medical ...

At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have achieved a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of ...