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Civil engineer Zheng Hehui invented Lego-like blocks, used in the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge pylons, as part of his practical PhD.Credit: Cynthia Lee/AlamyLast month, Zheng Hehui…

Senior executives at Drax raised concerns internally about the validity of the energy company’s sustainability claims while it publicly denied allegations that it was cutting down…

Credit: Artem Cherednik/iStock via GettyThe number of papers submitted to the top artificial-intelligence conferences has shot up, with some events seeing numbers rise more than tenfold…

Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via GettyPosts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act as early warning signs of problematic articles, according to…

Image sleuths noticed irregularities in figures from scores of papers co-authored by Ali Khademhosseini.Credit: Natali Mis/GettyIn December 2024, Elisabeth Bik noticed irregularities in a few papers…

One of my children is irate at my deletion of an important school email. I claim that so many useless emails rain into my inbox that…

Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark where, in 2015 and 2016 alone, she published…

A conservation charity known for its anti-renewables stance has made submissions to federal and state inquiries that name non-existent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm, and…

For two years, a team of Swiss researchers crossed the country by train, car and foot, carrying with them a red frame measuring 30 by 30…

Too many papers, too little time.Credit: Hulton Archive/Stringer/GettyThe challenge of staying up to date with the scientific literature has become a burden for everyone from students…