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What should've been a career high discovery of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean might be nothing but shoddy science and a prankster's plastic.

Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark

By Frank Landymore

A peer-review process accepted a research paper written entirely by OpenAI's ChatGPT — without ever realizing that an AI program penned the paper.

Researchers Reveal That Paper About Academic Cheating Was Generated Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An NYU chemistry professor was recently let go after students filed a scathing petition against him, arguing that his class, well, was simply just too hard.

University Fires Chem Professor After Students Complain His Course Was Too Hard

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two years after publishing, the journal Nature has retracted what was believed to be a major superconductivity breakthrough.

Science & Energy

Journal Retracts Study on Room Temperature Superconductors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For an industry so obsessed with peer review, it appears that academic journals are very reticent to retract or even warn readers about fraudulent articles.

Ignorant Scientists Keep Citing Papers That Were Retracted for Fraud

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard's incoming Undergraduate Council president has penned a scathing op-ed about his fellow council members' attempts to control student elections.

Harvard Student Says Harvard Students Are Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scammers are cooking up fake Harvard students to shill brands on the university’s website -- and the practice appears to be widespread.

Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands

By Jon Christian

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.

Science & Energy

Strange Research Paper Claims There’s a Black Hole at the Center of the Earth

By Jon Christian

To show solidarity with ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and to draw attention to racism in their workplaces, black academics are organizing a strike.

Black Researchers Are Holding an Academic Strike to Support BLM

By Dan Robitzski

Academics in South Korea are naming kids — theirs, their friends, or others — as coauthors on their papers to help with college admissions.

Science & Energy

Professors are Naming Their Kids as Co-authors in Academic Papers

By Dan Robitzski

Now, Motherboard reports, MIT students are calling for the termination of a third academic associated with Epstein — this one even closer to the financier.

Students Demand MIT Fire Prof Who Visited Epstein in Prison

By Jon Christian