
Retraction Watch - 1 day 10 hours ago
A biomedical journal has retracted a paper by a cancer researcher who sued her former institution over misconduct allegations. The action comes a decade after a sleuth first raised concerns about the article. Former Ohio State researcher Flavia Pichiorri criticized how the publication, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, handled the dispute and said the journal … Continue reading Journal retracts breast cancer paper 10 years after sleuth flagged issues...

Science Alert - 1 day 15 hours ago
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Australian Geographic - 1 day 20 hours ago
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of Australian Geographic we are looking back at a selection of stories we've run over the decades. This feature article was published in Issue 106 of the magazine, in January 2012. The post FROM THE ARCHIVE: The lost kingdom of Shambhala appeared first on Australian Geographic .

PBS Newshour - 1 day 22 hours ago
Artificial intelligence is fueling stock market highs, economic growth and a construction boom across the country. But it is also igniting fierce local debates about the benefits, the costs and whether the data centers that power AI should be built at all. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at how one of those battles is playing out in the Midwest. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Smithsonian - 2 days 4 hours ago
In a recent study, researchers dated a historic lahar called the Electron Mudflow to the summer of 1507, establishing a way to determine when past geologic events around the Puget Sound occurred...

Newser - 2 days 10 hours ago
Tuesday is Ernest Hemingway's 127th birthday, and it turns out the author has picked up an unusual posthumous honor: A tiny iridescent wasp discovered in China now bears his name, per Phys.org . Researchers working in the Xinjiang region identified the new wasp species and dubbed it Chlorocytus papahemii a...

Science Daily - 2 days 11 hours ago
Watching television very often in midlife may be linked to troubling brain changes decades later. In a study of about 1,700 adults, frequent TV viewers later showed smaller brain regions involved in memory, decision-making, and visual processing, along with more signs of damage in the brain's white matter. Surprisingly, sitting itself did not appear to be the main issue, since people who spent long hours seated at mentally engaging jobs often showed healthier brain patterns.