Paper rejected for AI, fake references published elsewhere with hardly anything changed – Retraction Watch
One journal’s trash is another’s treasure – until a former peer reviewer stumbles across it and sounds an alarm. In […]
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Largest-ever map of the universe reveals 10x more early galaxies than expected
In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map
$900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health – Retraction Watch
The Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch, has launched a new initiative to investigate and rapidly
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How I Became A Bird Spy
https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/juncos-2.mp4 Don’t read too much into this, but I have become an obsessive bird spy. I blame LaWONian Ben Goldfarb.
Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier loss
In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine the societal consequences
Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of Europeans
Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on
Birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise
Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor
In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be
Listening to electrons talk | ScienceDaily
Researchers from the MPIK present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has
Save twice the ice by limiting global warming
The findings, published today in the journal, Science, are striking. Even if global temperatures were stabilised at today\’s level of