The latest research fraud scandal concerns one Eliezer Masliah. He’s one of the world’s leading researchers into Alzheimer’s and it looks as if he fabricated a good deal of his data. A large part of ...

Faith once filled the gaps where science had no voice. Over millennia, those beliefs became the backbone of cultures and laws. But as knowledge expands, certain long-held ideas struggle to keep pace ...

Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like wildfire. Some of these myths sound plausible enough that even ...