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Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceCANCUN, Mexico — By bombarding a patch of the Honduran rainforest with laser pulses, archaeologists have discovered structures that could be a part of a lost city — or two. Read more
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The journal Scoliosis has retracted a 2012 paper by a pair of German spine doctors over what the editors have called a less-than-fully declared conflict of interest involving one of the authors. That should be relatively straigtforward – but it’s not quite. Turns out the article does include a disclosure, although perhaps the information it […]
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Originally posted on Nature Jobs Blog - a blog from NaturejobsAlthough the prospect terrifies the best of us, this month we will be sharing top tips from the Naturejobs archive to prove that if you tackle it in the right way, networking can feel natural and easy. And with the summer term coming to an end, there’s no time like the present to start forging connections for the year to come. Join us every Wednesday over the next month as we share blog posts and articles on Twitter and Facebook, […]
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Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceA marathon meeting of European government ministers has produced some small but potentially vital compromises in the on-going reform of Europe’s fisheries. Read more
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Nanotech researcher SK Sahoo, whom as we reported in February lost four papers from Acta Biomaterialia for what the journal called “highly unethical practices,” has actually retracted five papers from that journal. According to a notice for “Enhanced cellular uptake and in vivo pharmacokinetics of rapamycin loaded cubic phase nanoparticles for cancer therapy” that appears […]
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Plastemart is reporting that a London based company has developed "...Enzymoplast, which the firm says consists of proteins and enzymes that break down polyethylene "in a natural way". Enzymoplast triggers a decomposition process when plastic bags containing the additive come into contact with microorganisms. The microorganisms first devour the proteins, which breaks the polymer chain. It also activates the enzymes, which act as a catalyst and accelerate the process. After a few months only
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The Journal of Multivariate Analysis has retracted a paper it was never meant to publish — a problem, it seems, of multivariate analyses. The article, titled “Regression estimation with locally stationary long-memory errors,” came from a par of statisticians in Chile, Wildredo Palma and Guillermo Ferreira. It appears that the article did not pass muster […]
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Originally posted on Soapbox Science - a community guest blog from nature.comOn April 30, COMPASS published a paper at PLOS Biology that shared our experiences in science communication over the past decade. We organized a blog carnival to broaden the conversation about motivations, challenges, and lessons learned. This post is a reflection on public and private responses to the ideas we presented, and an attempt to answer, “Where do we go from here?” … Read more
