The microbiologist has turned her attention full-time to unearthing problematic figures in papers—for free.

Scientists who accept funding with the tacit agreement that they keep their mouths shut about the government are far more threatening to an independent academy than those who speak their minds.

Researchers face roadblocks to treating an individual patient’s cancer as a unique disease.

A look at this year’s most memorable retractions

A look at this year’s most memorable retractions

Grading journals on how well they share information with readers will help deliver accountability to an industry that often lacks it.

Merck owes its victory in a recently concluded Vioxx trial in New Jersey largely to the testimony of J. Michael Gaziano, a Harvard cardiologist who expressed his doubts that Vioxx, and not stress, triggered the 2001 heart attack in Frederick "Mike" Humeston, who argued otherwise. It turns out that Gaziano's brother, Todd, a prominent constitutional law scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington, DC, h

Amanda Goodall, a doctoral student in strategic management at Warwick Business School, UK, had a hunch, based on her experience working for college officials in both the United States and the United Kingdom: The world's elite research universities put a premium on naming elite researchers as their presidents.

Anyone can buy naming rights to a star, but Gary and Linda Dower are hoping to pick up their very own observatory.

Osteopaths ask for $120 million after being criticized; experts question limits of scientific debate

Soon after reproductive and developmental biologist Sudhansu Dey's group at the University of Kansas moved to new quarters at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., they began noticing that once well-established results on uterine gene expression and reproductive function in female mice procured from the same supplier, and of the same genetic strain, had become a lot less predictable.

Dimitri Bonnville got cardiac stem cell therapy. Now he's suing