Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

A reporter uncovers evidence that research fraud on a massive scale has hyped the potential benefit of expensive drugs aimed ...

The early lineages of hexapods (broadly defined insects) have long been debated. Researchers at University of Tsukuba and collaborators critically examined the newly proposed "Protura-sister" ...

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Is there a universe where time flows backward or where our reality is flipped? The Mirror Universe Hypothesis explores this intriguing possibility, and we explain it all here. Against the odds ...

"We have previously had two well-established types of magnetism," study author Oliver Amin, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham in the U.K., told Live Science ...

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We then illustrate with examples the importance of using hypothesis-generating (data-driven) science to generate hypotheses that address mechanistic questions. Finally, we propose a framework for ...

The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect. The organizations ...