In the past 13 years, I have added 10,000 papers to the reference manager that I first used when I was a PhD student. The topics span Alzheimer’s disease, genetics, biostatistics, epidemiology, the ...

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Citations in academic papers are intended to ground research in the ...

Everyday life can often become crowded with thoughts and feelings about making it through the day. You often have little time to contemplate your next actions, much less dwell upon those that are in ...

The Panama Papers, one of the biggest ever data leaks, revealed the vast scale of offshore financial networks used by the global elite. On April 3, 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative ...

The Panama Papers exposed how hidden company ownership and corporate service providers helped move and conceal wealth linked to corruption and crime. A decade on, some progress has been made: more ...

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 ...

Bitcoin recently held the 2023 realized price around $63,700 as support, echoing similar behavior seen during multiple corrections in 2023. The broader realized price sits near $54,300, a level ...

Key insight: Checks are an expensive, insecure legacy that is a drag on the U.S. economy. it is time for the U.S. to phase them out in a logical, orderly fashion. Supporting data: In 2024, checks ...

Rolling papers aren’t props. They’re the instrument that sets the pace and feel of a session. Whole towns learned to work with fiber, water and heat the way a luthier tunes a guitar. You can see it in ...

Forty years ago, “Back to the Future” premiered in theaters. The movie, about a teenager who inadvertently travels back in time, grossed around $222 million worldwide in inflation-adjusted dollars. If ...

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 ...