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More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A study identified more than two million articles that did not appear in a major digital archive, despite having an active DOI.Credit: ...

How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Journals are making an effort to detect manipulated images of the gels used to analyse proteins and DNA.Credit: Shutterstock It seems that ...

The open-science movement for sharing laboratory materials gains momentum

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

More practitioners are needed to support the open-science movement to disseminate materials such as bacterial DNA plasmids.Credit: Daniela Beckmann/Science Photo Library Lenny ...

Fingertip oxygen sensors can fail on dark skin — now a physician is suing

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Sarah Carter

Pulse oximeters shine light through the skin and measure how much of it is absorbed by the blood to determine blood-oxygen levels.Credit: ...

how 100 years have shaped science

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A century after the invention of bakelite (widely used to make early phones), talks are under way to agree on a treaty ...

ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The artificial-intelligence model that powers ChatGPT can create superficially plausible scientific data sets.Credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Researchers have used the ...

modelling marine microbes is key to climate forecasts

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Marine microorganisms are crucial for ocean health. Bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae and viruses make up most of the biomass in the seas ...