A recent toast to James Watson highlights a tolerance for bigotry many want excised from the scientific community.

The physician-scientist recruited future Nobel Prize winners to build the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas into a first-rate institution. 

The Chilean government contends that the remains of a mummified fetus, recently sequenced by US researchers, were exhumed illegally.

Anne Peyroche has been acting president of the French science organization since last October.

The BMJ inquiry finds that researchers presented only select results from animal experiments when applying for funding and approval for human trials.

How to tell reputable journals from shady ones

With lifestyles similar to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the San people of Southern Africa are popular study subjects.

Several initiatives aim to improve research integrity in the country, but recent high-profile cases of misconduct highlight a lingering problem.

This fundamental form of scientific communication is threatened by modern recording technology and researchers who refuse to adhere to an age-old ethical code.