300 staff and students are asking Ghent University to reconsider the appointment of a controversial American researcher. ‘The man spreads racist ideas, which is contrary to Ghent University's code of ...

Uni academics said in leaked emails that even Cofnas's presence detracts from their work, because they had to counter the 'flood of shit'

The f4-ratio estimation is a popular technique for estimating gene flow proportion as a ratio between two f4 -statistics. We point out the underappreciated fact that the root is not important in f4 -r...

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Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them

After he leaked Zohran Mamdani's Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a "eugenicist." A Mother Jones report shows there's much more to his backstory.

A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.

The company claiming it can restore lost species also wants to patent them.

We study the $k$:th raw moment of a variable $R$ following the binomial distribution $\text{B}(n, p)$, where $n/k \rightarrow β> 0$. It is known that $\mathbb{E}(R^k)$ is bounded both from below and f...

Abstract. Many quantitative traits can be measured from a single individual only once, making acquisition of longitudinal data impossible. In this paper, w

Details emerge about Natal conference in Austin later this month, set to feature figures linked to far-right politics

Numerous members of the editorial board resign after publisher installs new editors-in-chief.

With the emergence of online publishing, opportunities to maximize transparency of scientific research have grown considerably. However, these possibilities ...

Abstract. Over the past 15 years, the D-statistic, a four-taxon test for organismal admixture (hybridization, or introgression) which incorporates single n