Science Fancy science journal caught publishing nonsense term "vegetative electron microscopy," doubles down Ellsworth Toohey

plagiarism Harvard president Claudine Gay denies new plagiarism charges Mark Frauenfelder

academic integrity Harvard expert on rule-breaking accused of fraud Mark Frauenfelder

politics RFK Jr replaces entire vaccine advisory board with controversial figures Jennifer Sandlin

artificial intelligence AI-generated research papers are being published everywhere Natalie Dressed

Master of Swiftian Sciences Casualties are expected when Stanford students fight for seats in a new course studying Taylor Swift Jason Weisberger

Scholars discover a mysterious wave of scientific papers using odd, "tortured phrases" Clive Thompson

plagiarism "Tortured" phrases used to fool plagiarism detectors now infest scientific papers Rob Beschizza

twitter Twitter bans more psyops accounts: China, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Ecuador Xeni Jardin

politics Twitter publishes tweet archive of Russian and Iranian state-run troll farms Rob Beschizza

happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The citation graph is one of humankind's most important intellectual achievements Dario Taraborelli

law Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist Cory Doctorow