Lately, there have been many headlines about scientific fraud and journal article retractions. If this trend continues, it represents a serious threat to public trust in science.

In an attempt to speed up quantum measurements, a new Physical Review Letters study proposes a space-time trade-off scheme ...

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe ...

Ongoing cross-checks at the Tevatron experiment reinforce its 2022 measurement of the mass of the W boson, which stands seven standard deviations above the Standard Model prediction ...

Decades of research and news articles espousing an “obesity epidemic” and tons of weight-loss products launched under the ...

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many types of cancer. However, new research to be presented at this year’s ...

Cosmologists are using cutting-edge computational tools to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, which together ...

The following year, the USGS began what is known as a "continuous mass balance" measurement project that keeps a running ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

A U.S. federal judge on Saturday temporarily barred the implementation of an 18th-century law that gives Donald Trump policy leeway to speed up deportations hours after the president invoked ...

A student who died in hospital a few days after he fell from an upper storey of student accommodation in Cork was a “gift beyond measure” for his family because of his zest for life and his ...

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