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Mystery as controversial list of predatory publishers disappears

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At least seven countries are jockeying to host the EU's medicine watchdog after Britain leaves

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What Trump's nominees are saying today about science and climate at their Senate hearings

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Inside the global campaign to get rid of rabies

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A half-billion-dollar bid to develop vaccines against the next viral threat

By Jon CohenJan. 18, 2017
How a dispute at Harvard led to a grad student’s forced mental exam and an extraordinary restraining order against a prominent scientist

By Alison McCook, Retraction WatchJan. 18, 2017
Update: U.S. abandons controversial consent proposal on using human research samples

By Jocelyn KaiserJan. 18, 2017
Heart-hugging device could help keep the beat

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Fairy circles could be the handiwork of hungry termites and thirsty plants

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Vol 355, Issue 6322
20 January 2017

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In Depth

A half-billion-dollar bid to head off emerging diseases

By Jon CohenJan. 20, 2017
How do gut microbes help herbivores? Counting the ways

By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 20, 2017
Unique free electron laser laboratory opens in China

By Dennis NormileJan. 20, 2017
Mixed results from cancer replications unsettle field

By Jocelyn KaiserJan. 20, 2017
Your self-driving car could kill radio astronomy

By Daniel CleryJan. 20, 2017
Science suffers in cold war over polar base

By Martin EnserinkJan. 20, 2017

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At least seven countries are jockeying to host the EU's medicine watchdog after Britain leaves

By Kai KupferschmidtJan. 20, 2017
Trump asks NIH Director Francis Collins to stay on

By Jocelyn KaiserJan. 19, 2017
What Trump's nominees are saying today about science and climate at their Senate hearings

By Jeffrey Mervis, Zack Kopplin, et al.Jan. 19, 2017
A half-billion-dollar bid to develop vaccines against the next viral threat

By Jon CohenJan. 18, 2017
How a dispute at Harvard led to a grad student’s forced mental exam and an extraordinary restraining order against a prominent scientist

By Alison McCook, Retraction WatchJan. 18, 2017

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