Three principles—transparency, credit, and accountability—should form the foundation for "responsible authorship," argues a working group comprising scholars, scientists and journal editors. In an ...
Three principles - transparency, credit, and accountability – should form the foundation for "responsible authorship", argues a working group ...
A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...
The news media is shaping reproductive narratives and stigma around childlessness, presenting it as a threat to national interests, a deviation from moral or cultural norms, as a risk and, sometimes, ...
In a new analysis, racial and ethnic disparities in fatal shootings of U.S. residents by police varied widely between states. Roland Neil of the RAND Corporation in California, U.S., and colleagues ...
A team of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered new evidence explaining why the rattlesnake's ...
Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess from ...
Infectious disease can afflict a population in complex ways. Understanding the varying risks is an equally complex challenge. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a general ...
WashU researchers created a state-level index and maps showing how socioeconomic and health factors drive vulnerability to ...
Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...
Scrolling on your phone while sitting on the toilet might be doing more harm than you think. A new study found that people who use smartphones during bathroom visits had a 46% higher risk of ...
Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...