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Science is an activity performed by humans, so it’s inevitable that some of the scientific papers we cover will end up being wrong. As we noted yesterday, the cause can range from factors completely ...

More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, finds a study published in Chemistry of Materials (2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00897).

Retraction is not effective in reducing online attention to problematic research papers, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study doesn’t support ...

Across academia, faculty and graduate students perform all kinds of research. Their findings lead to new medicines, better understanding of space and time, or how the brain ticks. Universities brag ...

Mistakes are part of science. But setting the record straight promptly and clearly can help to avoid a career blot. After 18 months of complex testing and re-testing, Pamela Ronald became certain that ...

Just before Christmas, the prestigious journal Nature Communications retracted an article that examined the informal mentorship of junior scientists. Among other findings, the paper concluded junior ...

Recent findings of misconduct by researchers at both Bell Labs and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have once again brought the issue of fraud and scientific trust into the public spotlight.