Brain-dead bodies hold great promise for medical education and research, but how do we calculate the ethical cost?

Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question

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Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Svalbard is warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth, but security concerns are tightening access to its glaciers, fjords, and sea floor

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NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication

Science sleuth Lonni Besançon realizes that he has sometimes misunderstood what the media want from him and his researcher colleagues.

How money, fear, and October 7th forged a contentious new area of study.

Adoption has been slow with new Alzheimer’s drugs because the treatments are complicated to administer and the benefits are uncertain.

A group of cancer researchers whose work has been questioned by sleuths has been hit with their third retraction in less than a year.   Today, Science Translational Medicine (STM) withdre…

A judge has dismissed a legal challenge aimed at forcing Elsevier to retract a long-criticized study that concluded the antidepressant Paxil was safe and effective for teens. The 2001 paper, publis…

Join Charles Piller, a correspondent for Science and investigative reporter, as he discusses his book “Doctored,” an examination into how unscrupulous researchers, government enablers, and Pharma exec...

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iStock An appeals judge has recommended the U.S. Health and Human Services uphold a proposed 15-year debarment for a scientist accused of research misconduct more than a decade ago.  In a May …

Inspired by the loss of their mother, they have poured millions into studying a key protein behind frontotemporal dementia. But all has not gone according to plan

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

Laser-written patterns on glass could store data for millennia at a time

STAT has won its fourth Polk Award in five years for documenting the Trump administration’s shakeup of the FDA, scientific research, and public health.

Over the past couple of days, I have been reviewing a series of Materials Science papers, all co-authored by the same group of researchers from the Universities of Lahore, Chakwal, and Sargodha in …

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utah778/iStock The U.S. government recently announced a record $6.8 billion in False Claims Act settlements and judgments in 2025, the most in a single year since the law’s enactment 163 years ago.…

Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau

New energy-absorbing designs and materials have revolutionized the iconic safety device

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Investigative journalist Charles Piller exposes Alzheimer’s research fraud and the hidden misconduct that delayed cures and reshaped modern science.

T3D Therapeutics alleges that contract researchers delivered “medically impossible” results on its candidate drug

Inside the decadeslong quest to reveal the genes of a genius—and revolutionize art authentication

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We always enjoy our annual review of the year at Retraction Watch, and 2025 is no exception. But we’re more excited about what lies ahead than what we already accomplished.  We’re on track for…

Allegations a scientist doctored images in a paper on Alzheimer’s. Rachel Hardeman's resignation. An investigation into a pediatrician's reports of child abuse. The U saw a number of scientific scanda...

Sham journals that mimic real ones can fool unsuspecting authors who are submitting a manuscript, researchers looking for references for papers — and even indexing services aiming to be comprehensi…

An Economist Best Book of 2025 So Far For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, a “gripping story of medical groupthink and warped incentives” (T...

Rand Paul has blasted government science officials and scientists over COVID-19’s origin

The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has been relatively quiet in 2025, releasing just two misconduct findings with only two weeks remaining in the year — the fewest the office has released since …