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Behavior Brief

By | May 23, 2013

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

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Scientists Take Aim at Impact Factor

By | May 20, 2013

A declaration asks the scientific community to put less weight on the metric, widely used to evaluate journals’ prestige.

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Opinion: Ethics Training in Science

By | May 14, 2013

The NIH has required researchers to receive instruction about responsible conduct for more than 20 years, but misconduct is still on the rise.

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Opinion: Remediating Misconduct

By | May 14, 2013

Should institutions invest in changing the behavior of scientists found guilty of violating research rules and ethics?

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Scientists Celebrate UK Libel Reform

By | April 29, 2013

New libel laws for England and Wales should help protect scientific debate, but campaigners worry that legal costs remain a threat.

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Nature Announces Reproducibility Initiative

By | April 25, 2013

The journal is sharpening its review of life science papers and giving authors additional space to document more detailed methods.

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Italy Animal Lab Trashed

By | April 24, 2013

Animal-rights activists devastate a psychiatric research lab at the University of Milan.

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Female Anthropologists Harassed

By | April 15, 2013

A new survey finds a high incidence of sexual harassment and rape among women doing anthropological field work.

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image: Review: Errors of the Human Body

Review: Errors of the Human Body

By | April 11, 2013

This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.

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Is PubMed Hurting Scientific Journals?

By | April 5, 2013

A study concludes that the open access repository is decreasing biomedical journal readership.

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