A narrative review finds artificial intelligence tools for stone-associated urinary infection are promising but predominantly retrospective and lacking external validation.
The Editor-in-Chief of Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters has retracted a 2018 paper on ClC-2 knockdown and cerebrovascular remodeling after extensive image overlaps and the authors' failure to provide raw data. Editors Retract 2018 ClC-2 Cerebrovascular Study Over Image Concerns Subject of Research: Retraction of…
Every community goes quiet at some point. The regulars get busy, a bigger platform pulls people away, and the front page shows the same threads for weeks. For anyone who has run a forum or a member site, that silence…
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Nature recently reported that the preprint server arXiv is banning papers that contain references hallucinated by artificial-intelligence tools (see Nature 653, 988–989; 2026). Scientists continue to debate whether such citations constitute research misconduct (see Nature 652, 26–29; 2026). Nature 658, 1356 (2026) Can maths…
An alternative, albeit less quantitative, way to trace this history is through the people who carried ideas between the fields. ” Foundational ideas often become invisible precisely because they have become foundational. Duarte’s analysis is a valuable map of current cross-field…
HDS professor David Lamberth examines the values shaping artificial intelligence and what responsible leadership demands in a time of rapid technological change. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the subject of intense public debate. While some people are excited by what…
I am so used to ideologically extreme and transgressive articles published in science and other professional journals, that when one publishes common-sense commentary, I think it should be applauded. As most readers know, there is a great advocacy push underway…
A UC Berkeley professor has reportedly abandoned grading assignments after noticing that his students have been abusing AI to secure top scores. “Student use of AI for homework is now widespread,” Richard Borcherds told the California Post. “Grading for correctness…
Springer Nature bought venerable SciAm. in 1986 but sold it this last summer to Canadian-based LabX Media Group. Recently, prominent figures in science writing are sounding the alarm rather loudly about its direction. Early last Friday morning, Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven…
Sharp et al. investigate the implications of unequal access to AI agents and of differences in their quality and number, developing a conceptual framework to identify potential sources of inequality and suggesting a research agenda to help address the resulting…
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