A groundbreaking and startling scientific study published in the renowned academic journal Science Advances has sent ripples ...

DEHRADUN: Alarmed by forest fires spreading towards Uttarakhand’s ecologically fragile high-altitude regions, the state ...

(Simon Marcus Taplin/The Image Bank/Getty Images) Thank you for reading this article: By supporting science journalism, ...

The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...

The World Health Organization and multiple scientific studies say taking folic acid does not raise the risk of a miscarriage.

From fabricated research to paid authorships and citations, organized scientific fraud is on the rise, according to a new Northwestern University study. By combining large-scale data analysis of ...

Results from a massive research project investigating whether previously reported scientific results can be replicated raises questions about their reliability. A major, new examination of the ...

“Can you imagine eating toxic waste for breakfast?” Science magazine asked in a 2010 press release touting a newly discovered microbe controversially claimed to “live and grow entirely off arsenic.” ...

This week, the stories in The Lede are devoted to the lives that have been upended during the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second term. In 1999, Peggy Bryant, a fifty-year-old oncology nurse ...

Didcot and Wantage MP, Olly Glover is worried flat funding may lead to job losses and facilities shutting.