If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.
The week at Retraction Watch featured:
In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries….

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.
The week at Retraction Watch featured:
In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries….

This week in science: how eating meat could be associated with a longer life; a switch for fat cell production; how space travel could supercharge viruses to fight for us; and much more!

Many objects in space rotate. Earth completes a spin in roughly 24 hours, while Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The moon’s rotational period is about 27 days. The sun, it turns out, also rotates. So how long does the sun take to complete…

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After finding your dream mattress, you may be tempted to settle for a basic bed frame. However, the right bed frame does more than…

Splinters are everyday injuries commonly involving a small shard of wood, glass, metal, plastic, or a thorn that becomes embedded in the skin and the soft tissue underneath.
The outer skin layer, known as the epidermis, has a high level of…

It is the best of times, and it is (far from, actually,) the worst of time for NASA, with two big astronaut launches converging toward the same week, as a rare Arctic cold front pushes mission schedules into a logistical whirlwind.
It’s a tale…

A pregnant woman’s blood sample taken in 1972 was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time.
More than 50 years later, that strange absence finally led researchers from the UK and Israel to…

WASHINGTON — It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group of dinosaurs called sauropods that included the largest land…

Abnormally cold weather forecast over the weekend for Florida…

New details have emerged regarding Japan’s H3 rocket failure last month, revealing the strange way its payload—a navigation satellite—was lost prior to reaching its target orbit.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)…