“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

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Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study.

The journal cites experimental error as the reason for the decision, which comes nearly 15 years after the paper’s ...

Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit ...

F or a chemistry undergraduate focused on synthesis, pivoting to a PhD in physics is a bold move. But that’s exactly what Sascha Feldmann did—unlocking a research career that fuses materials ...

We may be on the cusp of a new era of biochemical discovery, but turning these advancements into drugs isn’t so easy ...

As the world gets wetter, studying a water cycle in flux is a major challenge. ‘You cannot bring a cloud into a laboratory,’ ...

The tendency of Nobel Prizes to recognize solo scientists in privileged spaces needs some reflection Victor Ambros and Gary ...

Gutting the National Climate Assessment is just one way the Trump administration is undermining the legal justification to limit greenhouse gas emissions ...

Adding the missing sugars to coronavirus protein structures Most of the recently reported viral structures have left out the carbohydrate decorations that help mask ...