Fake Research Paper Based on Star Trek: Voyager's Worst Episode Was Published by a Scientific Journal
It’s not just poorly-conducted research making its way into journals, but blatantly false papers as well.
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It’s not just poorly-conducted research making its way into journals, but blatantly false papers as well.
Should all go according to plan, the revenue gleaned from the Starlink project could be used to fund eventual missions to Mars.
The astronomers will continue to monitor the vortex with Hubble, and we’ll see where it goes from here.
It only took one day for someone to capitalise on the bizarre news that Apple’s £330 HomePod might wreck your wood furniture.
This cellular black box can store information about events in a cell’s life.
Though there isn’t formal academic research on the topic, it’s easy to generate reasons why it might be the case.
The car’s next close encounter with Earth will be in 2091, so either way we'll be waiting a while.
Between 1984 and 2012, confirmed kidney stone diagnoses doubled for men and quadrupled among women, and scientists are now trying to pinpoint the causes.
Naturally, the scientific community is not thrilled about the error.
Kepler is the gift that keeps on giving.
It’s still early days for this treatment and there’s clearly lots to learn and refine—but it’s an encouraging development nonetheless.
Researchers in the UK and France found completely contradictory and even sometimes plainly false estimates in previous evidence surrounding the domestication of the European rabbit.
In curling, what happens to the stone on the ice is a whole science lesson in itself.
Researchers from two teams now working with Intel reported advances in a new quantum computing architecture today.
A 26-year-old woman in the US is believed to be the first human ever reported to be infected with a certain species of eye worm.
Matabele ants' search-and-rescue service is unique to the entire animal kingdom.
