Invasion of the 'Journal Snatchers': the Firms That Buy Science Publications and Turn Them Rogue

Related Stories

Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it

Physicists turn lead into gold – for a fraction of a second

In a first of its kind study, projections suggest that by 2030, 24%, 17%, and 32% of countries will continue to have one in every five adolescent children married, giving birth, and out of school…

Crop yields increase by 12% with a spray of T6P, a natural molecule that controls the plant equivalent of “blood sugar”, and can reduce the associated greenhouse gas emissions caused by fertiliser production.

A new study shows that even a moderate dose of caffeine alters brain activity during sleep, increasing complexity and nudging neural systems toward a high-efficiency processing state…

The effect of ChatGPT on students' learning performance, perception,and thinking

The unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape

Microbe that infests hospitals can digest medical-grade plastic ― a first

Stepping on oil: every 1,000 deg/sec² of arm speed reduces sideways slipping and falling by 2 cm

Fungus from the human gut slows liver disease in mice. The disease affects almost one-third of human adults and treatments are limited

Physical punishment, like spanking, is linked to negative childhood outcomes, including mental health problems, worse parent–child relationships, substance use, impaired social–emotional development, negative academic outcomes and behavioral problems, finds study of low‑ and middle‑income countries.

Early life growth (from 0 to ~2 years) is strongly associated with the variability in pubertal growth, and adult height, but not with the timing of pubertal growth

Discourses of contemporary masculinity among Estonian manfluencers

NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

Menopausal shift on women’s health and microbial niches

Chromosome-level genome assembly of Parotis chlorochroalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)

Protein-slayer drugs could beat some of the cruellest cancers

Scientists made a potent antivenom using antibodies from Tim Friede, a US snake collector, bitten roughly 200 times by venomous snakes and given more than 600 doses of venom to build up his immunity

Real world study of viral transmission via cash finds minimal risk

Energy efficiency of heat pumps in residential buildings using operation data

DNA remnants in red blood cells enable early detection of cancer

Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic

Aging promotes reactivation of the Barr body at distal chromosome regions - Nature Aging

Time for adults to finally act like adults on climate change: A report detailing how climate inaction will consign people born today to a lifetime of weather extremes must awaken a sense of responsibility.

Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter and related mortality in the United States

New study in Nature Comms used Minecraft to show how humans adaptively switch between solo and social learning

A research team proposed a new neural network architecture for generating structured curved coordinate grids, an important tool for calculations in physics, biology, and even finance.

Most people need around 8 hours of sleep each night to function, but a rare genetic condition allows some to thrive on as little as 3 hours

Why the green-technology race might not save the planet - The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.

Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.