Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

Scientists aren’t usually thrilled when reviewers of their research papers ask for extensive revisions ahead of publication. But the stress that authors experience might pay off in the long run. An ...

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking. That ...