The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

The problematic use of guest editors was spotlighted last week when a genetics journal retracted nearly an entire special ...

Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be.

Improved methods for social and behavioral sciences research could help enhance public trust in science, says a new study ...

From fabricated research to paid authorships and citations, organized scientific fraud is on the rise, according to a new Northwestern University study. By combining large-scale data analysis of ...

Researchers at Northwestern University said the number of junk scientific publications is growing, and bad actors are profiting. "These people are ruining it for all of us," said Northwestern ...

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.” But repeated scientific studies ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

When scientists cannot confirm the results from a published study, to some it is an indication of a problem, and to others, it is a natural part of the scientific process that can lead to new ...

President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin to announce the EPA will no longer regulate greenhouse gases, in the Roosevelt Room of the White ...