Twenty years after high-profile cases of fraud, research ethics has come a long way. But there is still much to be done. In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into ...
This eight-part series maps the frontiers of contemporary particle physics. It begins with an introduction to the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the seventeen-mile-long Large Hadron ...
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Grappling with problematic papers and poorly documented data, researchers and journal editors gathered in Pittsburgh to hash out the best way forward. Recent highly publicized scandals have gotten the ...
A BALLOON the size of a football stadium hovering over an Antarctic ice sheet. A Zoom screen of researchers awaiting a big reveal. A lone researcher caught up in covid-19 restrictions, holding a slip ...
In 2005 two French scientists discovered something about oil droplets that had potential implications far beyond the realms of engineering. Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort of the École Normale ...
STOCKHOLM — U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action,” paving the way for the ...