The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects

Vom Strassenverkehr bis zum Gesundheitswesen: Ausländische Regierungen und internationale Konzerne haben es auf die Daten der Afrikaner:innen abgesehen.

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

Geophysical survey yields ‘tantalizing’ data that could point to Nefertiti’s burial place – but it’s too early to draw definitive conclusions.

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For the first time since they began, the Ig Nobel Prizes, a satirical version of the Nobel prizes, is being held overseas.

AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. We need to start planning now so it makes the world a fairer place.

Background In 2024, the BMJ updated its data-sharing policy for clinical trials, requiring open deposit of deidentified individual participant data (IPD) before publication. We considered whether data...

Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text.

Eric Topol is a prominent cardiologist known for his research into deploying AI and other technologies to improve healthcare. He considers himself a Demis Hassabis superfan, and when I spoke to him, h...

How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. This Perspective invites us to consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the ne...

The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

Laboratory mice housed under specific pathogen-free conditions are the standard model in biomedical research. However, frequent germ-free rederivation and barrier housing restrict microbial exposure a...

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

International donors are transnational actors that pursue various strategies to influence policy decisions in Global South countries. In addition to conditionality, which typically involves imposing p...

This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …

Publishers have massively expanded their research integrity teams to combat fraud. Will it work?

Simplifying how we explain complex concepts can lead to surprising benefits

ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

How big money trumps the people’s will — and how to reclaim democracy

This month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities.

Observing others’ immoral behavior can increase one’s own dishonesty, but the neurocomputational mechanisms driving this moral contagion remain unclear. This study shows that cheating increases in dis...

The key to treating genetic disease might be hidden in other “modifier” genes.

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports