Fecal transplants outcompeted traditional antibiotics at curing a deadly intestinal infection.

Authors retract a decade-old, highly-cited cancer study, admitting sloppy mistakes in the data analysis.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

IBM programmers had to clean up the super computer’s language after it learned profanity on the Internet.

After the suicide of Reddit developer Aaron Swartz, JSTOR says it regrets being involved in the federal computer fraud case against him.  

An NIH study finds that the former NFL linebacker who committed suicide last May had signs of degenerative brain disease.

A trending hashtag on Twitter lets researchers reveal the lighter side of scientific methodology.

Transplanting synthetic stool made of beneficial microbes cures deadly diarrheal infections in two patients.

BioTime finalizes a deal to buy Geron’s defunct human embryonic stem cell assets.

Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.

Scientists discover coral reef off the coast of Australia thriving at a record 125 meters (410 feet) below the surface.

A publisher bills authors $650 to retract a twice-published paper.