Scientific papers are for sharing your own original research work with other scientists or for reviewing the research conducted by others. As such, they are critical to the evolution of modern science ...

Scientific fraud is becoming a larger issue. Thousands of fake scientific papers have flooded journals and have subsequently had to be retracted. Much of this is the work of paper mills, which submit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; photo via Getty Images) Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

Science has always relied on a curious human’s mind forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing the results and presenting the case to that person’s peers. Over centuries, we’ve built ...