Discoveries of some species, such as this Pleurobranchaea britannica mollusc (left), are often seen as less enticing than others, such as the fossil dinosaur Spinosaurus mirabilis (artist’s impression, right).Credit: Turani, M. et al./Zoosyst. Evol. CC BY 4.0, JA Chirinos/SPL In February, a study in Science1 described a new species of Spinosaurus — a group of
Credit: Pawel Kacperek/Getty One of the world’s top professional societies for scientists and engineers has retracted 1,417 conference papers in one go. The move was announced in a 28 October statement by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in New York City. It is the largest single bulk retraction issued by any scholarly
As staff at the Lower Manhattan headquarters of Macmillan Publishers headed into work one morning in January 2024, they filed past something strange on the walls—flyers welcoming a new member of the team named “NOA.” The cafeteria was festooned with purple balloons and banners, according to several workers present, and with NOA’s name in light-up
Some preprint servers report being flooded with submissions.Credit: Michael Szebor/Nature In a bid to tackle the deluge of manuscripts it now receives, the preprint server arXiv has announced a cap of two papers per month for each submitting researcher, which began on 1 October. The move follows a steep rise in submissions driven mainly by
When Borsook and I first met, in December of last year, she was fully in the midst of what she terms “this resuscitation thing.” It had happened so quickly and altogether without her knowledge: a social media post here, another one over there, celebrated tech critics like Gil Durán of The Nerd Reich exhuming her
A social-media sleuth known as Student Geng has released a series of videos highlighting cases of alleged research misconduct.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature China’s national funding agency has reprimanded and penalized four senior academics and their colleagues after a sleuth flagged data anomalies in their published papers. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) found violations
