Plagiarism, often called literary theft, is a persistent challenge in academia and research. It involves using the intellectual work of another person (ideas, text or concepts, without adequate attribution, claiming it as their own [[Aronson, 2007]; [Khadilkar, 2018]; [Bhattacharya, 2016]] [1]. This little ethical practice includes deliberate actions such as mosaic plagiarism, robbery of ideas,…
The authors have a conflict of interest or not, right? Mistaken. Digital Science research has discovered a network entangled by missing statements, errors and subterfuge, which highlights the need for a more careful evaluation of published research. In this year World Conference on Integrity of ResearchA team of digital science researchers led by Pitha Sarkar…
As part of the celebrations for 20 years of blogging, I am re-posting articles that in some way were notable for the history of the blog. This time I want to (re)-submit to you four pieces I wrote to explain the unexplainable: the very complicated analysis performed by a group of physicists within the CDF…
The earth began to form around 4.6 billion years back! It is believed that a distant star exploded in space, which caused large amounts of interstellar dust on itself. Our sun formed first and then the rest of the planets. The earth formed from the rock and dust that binds. The heat of the nucleus…
The earth landslides blog It is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. For anyone who monitors global landslides, Ramban’s district in Jammu and Kashmir, India is a family name. Located in a highly tectonically active area of the Himalayas, with a monozonic…
A European-Australian research team has encountered an unexpected accumulation of the rare radioactive isotope beryllio-10 at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Draed about 10 million years ago, this anomaly can serve as a global “time marker” that will improve geological dating methods in the deep past. But the mystery remains why much of this…
Hallatan helmet replica. The original will be exhibited at the Harborough Museum in Leinseseshire, the United Kingdom. Credit: Harborough Museum. At the beginning of the 2000s, amateur archaeologists in the United Kingdom unearthed a large and extremely oxidized metal object somewhere in Leinsaleshire. It certainly didn’t seem much. However, this would be one of the…
Guest “Bravo Sierra!” By David Middleton During the opening speech of President Trump, he promised to unlock the “liquid gold” under the feet of the Americans and increase the production of fossil fuels. He suggested that doing so would reduce gasoline prices and lead to American wealth in cascade. In his executive order to declare…
AGU members have elected Benjamin Zaitchik as the next elected president of the organization, along with another 61 trade union officers, members of the Board, section and officers of the Faculty of Fellows, and representatives of students/first career to the AGU council to the AGU council For the 2025-2026 leadership period. Benjamin Zaitchik, professor of…
The legalization of sports bets has fed a national addiction crisis. With billions of betting houses and online that make bets effortlessly, the search for help addiction to game has reached the highest record. However, public health efforts remain dangerously inappropriate. Without urgent reforms, stretch marks advertising, stronger betting and extended treatment services, the crisis…