A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.

The practice of science involves trying to find things out about the world by using rigid logic and testing every assumption. Researchers then write up any important findings in papers and submit them ...

Cases like this are rare, but science is not immune to misconduct. The rise in 'paper mills' — organisations that produce ...

In a step toward robots that can learn on the fly like humans do, a new approach expands training data sets for robots that work with soft objects like ropes and fabrics, or in cluttered environments.

Fake Science: A 100% Fact-Free Alternative Who needs accurate information when you can simply make it up? A fake scientist explains ...

Fake Data Prompts Major Journals to Retract Chemistry Papers In Science and elsewhere claims about using small forces to pull molecules apart seem fabricated ...

In a step toward robots that can learn on the fly like humans do, a new approach expands training data sets for robots that work with soft objects like ropes and fabrics, or in cluttered environments.

Social Science One, an independent research commission, will give social scientists unprecedented access to Facebook's data.