Out of 722 manuscripts published in a GitHub repository, Sam Altman’s company withdrew three due to a sign error. As long as OpenAI continues to produce theorems faster than the world can read them, the word ‘proven’ should be taken with a pinch of salt, even when it is a computer that certifies it.

Seven million studies published in a single year, findings that appear to contradict one another and crucial insights that remain buried. To access scientific literature, we rely on search engines, platforms and artificial intelligence systems that sort through pages and decide which results to show us. This process of selection is inevitable, but the way in which it is carried out often remains opaque

The prize goes to Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel for their discoveries concerning light-activated ion channels. The medical applications could prove significant, and some have already begun to emerge

A twenty-year study analyses the reintroduction of wolves into the wildlife of the large nature reserve, refuting the ‘trophic cascade’ theory: ecosystems do not automatically restore their lost state 

A generic ‘International Culture Award’ does not turn its recipient into Benedetto Croce. If the same plaque had been presented at a conference centre on the Tiburtina, no one could have told the story of the ‘journey from prison to the Campidoglio’. Public prestige becomes the packaging for a private promotional campaign

A study in Nature reveals important information about the spread of viruses, but cuts to the WHO’s budget are having an impact on precisely those areas that are essential for continuing this work 

The research points to a plausible way of making articles much more dynamic than the PDFs we still use today, by finally enabling text, code and data to work together

How did the cells from which animals, plants and humans are descended come into being? New discoveries reported in Nature help to reconstruct one of the decisive stages of evolution, when two different organisms began to live together, eventually giving rise to a new type of cell

There are organisations that produce fake or recycled scientific articles, find them a publisher, and sell a place on the list of authors for a few hundred dollars. When will we put an end to bibliometrics?

The falsification of scientific images using generative AI is merely the most striking example of a trend affecting the entire chain of experimental evidence, from the raw data produced by the instrument to the summary table that reaches the reviewer. How to combat it