Is the pressure of the publish-or-perish mentality driving more researchers to commit misconduct?
Is the pressure of the publish-or-perish mentality driving more researchers to commit misconduct?
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
Scientists discover that ancestors of the unicellular fungi can synthesize essential biomolecules with only trace levels of O2.
Mothers more likely to have twins have heavier, healthier non-twin babies, possibly explaining why twinning evolved.
Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine.
NSF drafts guidelines of its scientific integrity principles, and opens them up for public comment.
Pro-evolution bumper stickers and emblems are being removed from the cars of biologists in Florida.
After completing his studies in medicine and biology, a restless Ernst Haeckel set off for Italy in 1859 to study art and marine biology. The diversity of life fascinated the 26-year-old Prussian, and in addition to painting landscapes, he spent the
A young botanist pays tribute to his mentor by naming a newly discovered, rare species in his honor.