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Your appendix might not be useless after all—and new research says it could be an evolutionary secret weapon

For years, the appendix carried a reputation as the body’s most pointless organ. Doctors often removed it without hesitation, ...
Rolling Stone

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals

As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, ...
Inside Higher Ed

Sick of Doomscrolling? Join This New Research Paper Collective Instead

Anuja Uppuluri used to spend a lot of time scrolling social media apps dictated by algorithms designed to keep users glued to their screens no matter how mind-numbing the content. “I always had ...
News4Jax

Rare but rising: Appendix cancer rates increasing significantly, new research shows

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Cancers in younger adults are surging. Colon cancer, once a midlife disease, is striking earlier than ever. Breast and kidney cancers are also climbing in people under 50. And now, ...
Scientific American

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals

Never heard of the Journal of International Relief or the International Humanitarian Digital Repository? That’s because they don’t exist. But that’s not stopping some of the world’s most popular ...
PNAS

The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research

Surveys are a primary source of data across the sciences, from medicine to economics. I demonstrate that the assumption that logically coherent responses are from humans is now untenable. I show that ...
The New York Times

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...
AppleInsider

Apple researchers take aim at AI hallucinations and true conversations

Apple Intelligence researchers have released a whole series of new academic papers concerned with furthering AI's ability to be personalized and understanding how errors occur. Now its researchers ...
Futurism

Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it in their work.
Healthline

Rare Appendix Cancer Cases Are Rising in Gen Xers, Millennials: What to Know

Share on Pinterest Gen Xers and older Millennials are 3 to 4 times more likely to develop appendix cancer compared to their parents, a new study suggests. Nicky Lloyd/Getty Images Appendix cancer ...
9to5Mac

New paper pushes back on Apple’s LLM ‘reasoning collapse’ study

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves for its blunt conclusion: even the most advanced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) collapse on complex tasks. But not ...
Harvard Business Review

Research: Why Employees Work While Sick—and How Leaders Can Stop It

Liza, an emergency medicine physician, had a fever and a persistent cough, but rigid shift requirements left her little flexibility. Returning from maternity leave recently, she worried that calling ...