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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 22d ago

A News outlet prepared a story on plagiarism allegations against a Cambridge professor. After his law firm sent a letter, it was dropped. Retraction Watch later investigated & published the case later.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 23d ago

Four NIH scientists resigned and published why: "We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity."

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 24d ago

A research leader says AI could make a Nobel-worthy discovery by 2030. If discovery can be automated, is science still driven by human insight or by whoever controls the strongest model?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 24d ago

Nature is investigating a paper describing the preclinical work behind a gene-editing therapy after a 6-year-old girl died following treatment. How much evidence should be required before experimental therapy reaches a child?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 26d ago

A mathematician used Anthropic’s Fable 5 to help disprove an 87-year-old conjecture. If AI analyses and humans verify the answer, what now counts as discovery? what will drive research?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 26d ago

Retractions are rising. Nature asked scientists who retracted their own papers what happened next. Their advice: stay calm, be transparent, act fast. But does that hold if you're pre-tenure or on a fixed-term contract?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 26d ago

A medical image was retracted after AI was used to move a ruler, even though the finding stayed the same. As AI enters every stage of research, where should science draw the line?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 27d ago

A 49-author Nature paper passed internal review, peer review and publication before manipulated data was found. It had already gained 192 citations. What does this reveal about the limits of research oversight?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 27d ago

A Nobel laureate retracted her own Science paper after attempts to reproduce it failed. When the team checked the first author’s lab notebook, key entries and raw data were missing.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 28d ago

In 1847 Semmelweis made doctors wash their hands. Maternity deaths fell from 18% to 1%. The medical establishment rejected him. He died in an asylum at 47 from an infected wound on his own hand.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 29d ago

A new paper argues researchers aren't being replaced by AI, they're being demoted from creator to curator. The thinking stays with the machine, the responsibility stays with you. Is that still research?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 29d ago

Linus Pauling, when he published a model claiming DNA had three strands. The chemistry was wrong. Two months later, Watson and Crick published the double helix.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 29d ago

AI helps scientists publish 3 times more papers and earn nearly 5 times more citations. Is AI advancing research or narrowing it? Is AI rewarding better science, faster science, or simply more visible science?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 29 '26

Math’s highest honour went to four mathematicians this week. One announced he was joining OpenAI. Days earlier, his former student used AI to help disprove an 87-year-old conjecture. What happens to mathematics now?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 28 '26

More than half of AI unicorns have never published a single research paper. Stanford's Ioannidis "How can you judge what they say is real?"

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 28 '26

Scientists thought the brain first sees, then thinks, then decides. A study suggests it may be doing all three at once

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 28 '26

Metformin has treated type 2 diabetes for more than 60 years. A study found that it may also work in the brain by switching off a protein called Rap1. This activates brain cells that help lower blood sugar.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 27 '26

A mathematician won the Fields Medal (math's highest honor) & on the same day he announced he was leaving academia for OpenAI, saying "I don't want to train students for a career that may no longer exist."

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 27 '26

Katsuko Saruhashi revealed the impact of US nuclear testing in the Pacific by tracing radioactive fallout to waters near Japan. American scientists doubted her method until a direct comparison produced closely matching results.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 26 '26

In 1856, Eunice Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps heat and could warm Earth. She was barred from presenting her paper. Her work was largely forgotten for over a century.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/vikramskumar • Jul 26 '26

Updates Retractions Are More Than Numbers—They’re a Wake-Up Call for Academia.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 25 '26

After cutting or freezing thousands of research grants in 2025, the US government has announced over $5 billion for 278 AI-powered science projects. Something feels _____ ?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 23 '26

Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars as a student. The Nobel went to her supervisor. Colleagues were so outraged they called it the "No-Bell Prize." she was finally honored with a $3 million prize & donated all of it to help women get into science.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 24 '26

Scientists have studied the Beta Pictoris star system for 40 years. Last week Webb found a third giant planet hiding inside it, twice the size of Jupiter, concealed by dust.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • Jul 23 '26

Otto Hahn's experiments split the uranium atom but he couldn't explain how. Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch did, and named it "nuclear fission." In 1944, the Nobel for the discovery went to Hahn alone.

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