In response to high retraction rates, India, Peru and Vietnam have introduced guidelines and disciplinary measures against research misconduct.Credit: designer491/iStock via Getty In a bid to tighten research standards, governments and funders in countries with emerging research systems are increasingly rolling out disciplinary measures for researchers who do the wrong thing. The policies include docking
When Daniel Evanko asked a scientist whether they had used artificial intelligence to write their peer-review report, he didn’t expect a confession. Most researchers don’t reveal AI help, says Evanko, who is the director of journal operations at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). How to manage AI risks while reaping the benefits But
The β-galactosidase molecule can be targeted by antibodies in experiments. But some studies have erroneously used the antibody that targets the bacterial β-galactosidase instead of the mammalian version.Credit: Laguna Design/Science Photo Library More than 50 studies on cell ageing have apparently used the wrong antibody to identify a key protein in experiments, according to a
Paper introductions and discussions show more signs of AI use than results sections. Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty The use of artificial intelligence to write scientific papers could be much more prevalent than was previously thought. That’s the upshot of a study that estimates that almost nine out of ten papers published in December 2025 in a
This figure displays the average CD5 index over time for six data sources and five different patent categories. The data sources are JSTOR (1,588,088 papers), the American Physical Society corpus (461,359 papers), Microsoft Academic Graph (random sample of 1,000,000 papers), and PubMed (1,563,211 papers). For reference, the Web of Science (22,479,429 papers) and PatentsView (2,926,923 patents) data sources are also included.
The AI company Anthropic says that its Claude models will label AI-generated content with a watermark.Credit: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Anthropic, the firm behind the artificial-intelligence model Claude, has announced that text generated by any models launched on or after 2 August will be invisibly embedded with a watermark that indicates the output was written