Funding for Retracted Science Study Was Misrepresented
By PAM BELLUCK and BENEDICT CAREY In his published study about canvassers changing people’s minds about gay marriage, […]
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Race and Gender Biases Can be Reduced With Sleep Therapy, ...
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Participants were shown images of women alongside scientific words and black men with pleasant […]
Chimpanzees in Liberia, Used in New York Blood Center Research, ...
By JAMES GORMAN After years of using a colony of chimpanzees in Liberia for biomedical research, the New […]
Retracted Scientific Studies: A Growing List
By MICHAEL ROSTON The retraction by Science of a study of changing attitudes on gay marriage is the […]
Journal Retracts Study on Changing Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage
By BENEDICT CAREY The journal cited a number of problems, including an author’s refusal to furnish raw data, […]
A Robot That Can Perform Brain Surgery on a Fruit ...
By JOHN MARKOFF A prototype developed by researchers at Stanford can outperform grad students, studying nearly a thousand […]
Adding Branches to the Human Family Tree
By CARL ZIMMER Recent fossil discoveries are fanning debate over the pace of evolution and how many species […]
Ancient Skull Suggests an Early Murder
By SINDYA N. BHANOO The 430,000-year-old skull has two penetrating lesions above the left eye, either one of […]
Next to Fairyflies, Ants Are Giants
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY A delicate wasp known as the Kikiki huna is believed to be the smallest […]
Sister Megan Rice, Freed From Prison, Is Unapologetic for Anti-Nuclear ...
By WILLIAM J. BROAD The nun, who spent two years behind bars for splattering blood and antiwar slogans […]