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At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We ...

Amid fights over conservation funding, an agreement is reached for businesses to pay for profiting from digital genetic ...

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André Hesselbäck uses his photographic memory and higher-education expertise to sniff out rampant credential fraud and degree mills.

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DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called ...

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too ...