
Retraction Watch - 1 day 18 hours ago
In what one sleuth called a "systemic failure," a wildlife journal has issued corrections to a handful of papers not for an error in the articles but to include an item that wasn't: ethics statements. The most recent such correction in the European Journal of Wildlife Research (EJWR) was on September 8. According to the … Continue reading Wildlife journal issues corrections for missing ethics statements...

Ars Technica - 1 day 19 hours ago
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 6 hours ago
Yesterday Francis Halzen received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for overseeing the experiment that detected an extraordinarily elusive subatomic particle via an ingenious reinterpretation of the concept of “telescope.” A version of this essay about that experiment originally appeared here on November 26, 2013, following the announcement of that discovery. The news this past […] The post Tale of the Tape appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .