In March, Omar, a biomedical researcher, posted a request in a private Facebook group for researchers.

For years, sleuths have been diligently flagging issues with the scientific literature.

In an unusual act of public protest...

PLOS One has retracted a 2011 paper first flagged for image issues 11 years ago.

The Center for Scientific Integrity – the non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch – has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake ...

While doing a literature review earlier spring 2025, a human factors researcher came across a paper he had peer-reviewed.

From lobster fishing bans to school closings during the COVID-19 pandemic, the misuse of science by federal agencies and individual researchers has fueled the ...

Investigative journalist Charles Piller’s latest book, "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s"...

Despite 50 Nobelists and 75,000 alumni, NSF’s graduate research fellows could be a vanishing breed. The future of the U.S. government’s premier training program for ...