Retracting a paper from the scientific literature can lead to fewer citations for related studies.
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Retracting a paper from the scientific literature can lead to fewer citations for related studies.
Research spending dropped $4 billion dollars in 2011, and could continue to drop, according to a new report.
A remote-controlled robot helps British surgeons repair heart defects.
The federal government tightens regulations on SARS and other deadly viruses, but the changes could hamper research.
The blogosphere voices widespread condemnation for a sexist comment made by a researcher attending this week’s annual Society for Neuroscience conference.
An African rat helps detect tuberculosis in Tanzania, prompting the Mozambique government to pursue a similar project.
The commonly abused hallucinogen shows promise in extinguishing fear in rats, pointing to possible benefits for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka jointly take home this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for turning back the developmental clock.
Researchers find that a deadly bacterial disease hitchhikes in people infected with the virus that causes AIDS to spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
A new rhabdovirus may be responsible for an outbreak of fatal hemorrhagic fever.