Male scientists commit research misconduct more often than their female peers, and senior researchers are more likely to engage in fraud than trainees.
Academics get paid handsome fees to consult with the financial industry, but run the risk of revealing confidential information that leads to illicit gains.
A new ethics course aims to rehabilitate scientists found guilty of misconduct so they can return to the field as productive researchers.
A recent roundtable discussion identifies challenges facing the scientific community regarding a lack of reproducible results in the literature.
An official investigation into a controversial GM rice study carried out with Chinese schoolchildren has resulted in the removal of three China-based researchers.
How neuroscience research can inform military counterintelligence tactics, and the moral responsibilities that accompany such research
An analysis of retractions dating back to 1977 shows that most papers are retracted due to misconduct.
Editors at 23 scientific journals demand validation of nearly 200 studies authored by a Japanese anesthesiologist.
Observers see grant application fraud as evidence that tighter controls preventing duplicate funding are necessary.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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