It was a rough week. On July 24, the editors of Science — the most prestigious science journal in the US — retracted an (in)famous paper from 2011 that reported the discovery of a microbe that could ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The day after the New Hampshire primary, the CEO of Clean Air-Cool Planet, an environmental group, contributed an op-ed to ...
A recent study published in The Journal of General Psychology suggests that many introductory psychology textbooks continue to misrepresent scientific findings and repeat long-standing myths. While ...
A series of articles published in open access journal mBio underscores the variety in opinion on whether a transmissible H5N1 strain should be studied. Although the current hantavirus outbreak has ...
The debate over Pluto’s planetary status has been ongoing since its reclassification as a “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Recent discussions and new scientific ...