
Retraction Watch - 1 day 22 hours ago
A federal court has ordered a "romance philologist" to repay the Swiss National Science Foundation roughly $51,000 after the group found the author responsible for "massive" scientific misconduct in two grant-funded books. Carla Rossi, scientific director of the Centro Scaligero degli Studi Danteschi in Verona, Italy, must repay the funding due to extensive plagiarism discovered … Continue reading Court orders historian to repay grant funding for "pattern of plagiarism"...

Science Daily - 1 day 23 hours ago
Scientists have developed a breakthrough injectable biomaterial that travels through the bloodstream to repair damaged tissue from within, reducing inflammation and jumpstarting healing. In animal studies, it successfully treated heart attack damage and even showed promise for conditions like traumatic brain injury and pulmonary hypertension. Unlike earlier approaches that required direct injection into the heart, this new therapy can be delivered intravenously, allowing it to spread evenly and...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 23 hours ago
To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the center.

GeekSpin - 2 days 3 min ago
A group of stars buried inside our own galaxy may be the leftover remains of a smaller galaxy that the Milky Way swallowed billions of years ago, according to new research. The findings, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, include the team's nickname for the absorbed galaxy Loki, after the Norse trickster […] Read the original article here: Scientists find a galaxy buried inside our own galaxy...

New Scientist - 2 days 8 min ago
Three people have died on board the cruise ship MV Hondius due to an outbreak of hantavirus, a rare illness transmitted by rodents...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 1 hour ago
By some estimates, more than a trillion dollars have already been invested in artificial intelligence. But large tech companies including Meta and OpenAI are still not content with today's AI, and say they have set their sights on powerful, versatile AI that by some measure would match or even exceed human performance. A remarkable amount of resources is being poured into developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) or even more capable artificial super intelligence (ASI). Excitement around...