A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than ...

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For climate change deniers, it was confirmation of a long-held suspicion: Scientists cannot be trusted. Days after publishing research that found global warming had boosted the risk of fast-growing ...

Exterior view of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While the Trump Administration's sharp increases in tariffs have received much of the political and economic attention in our ...

Taking Tanzania as an example, this paper systematically analyzes the current situation and challenges of primary school ...

Science journalist Matt Kaplan said scientists and journalists should be more transparent about how research works during a ...

A community of sleuths hunting for errors in scientific research have sent shockwaves through some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world — and the science community at large. High ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we ...

After 15 years of debate, a study that announced the alleged discovery of an arsenic-eating microbe has been retracted by the journal Science due to contaminated and flawed data. However, the original ...

George R.R. Martin recently made the news because he co-wrote a scientific paper. While it’s rare for someone from the arts to get their name on a research paper, it’s not unheard of. Several familiar ...