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Max Planck’s Previously Retracted Papers Get Reinstated

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A Trap for AI Use in Peer Reviews Sparks Controversy

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Altered Antibody Validation Data on Vendor Sites Alarms Researchers

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Proposed Changes to Grant Rules Threaten the Future of Research: Scientists Must Act Now!

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“Author Trends” Tool Tracks Researchers’ Impact and Integrity Metrics

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Automation Concerns Prompt Editor Resignation

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A Researcher’s Suspiciously High H-Index Revealed a Vast Citation Ring

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BEACON: How Benchmarking Combats the Reproducibility Crisis in Modern Science

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arXiv Takes the First Step to Combat “AI Slop” in Submissions

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Scientists Caution that Phasing Out Animal Research Prematurely Could Risk Women’s Health

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Flawed Kaggle Datasets Used in Clinical Models Spark Retractions

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Biosecurity Comics Help Communicate Risk and Inform Policy

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Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go

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Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

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Then and Now: Sarkis Mazmanian Finds Gut-Brain Links to Parkinson’s Disease

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies.

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Essential Genes Are Dominantly Activated by Single Transcription Factors

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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