Category Science

Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat

like many PubPeer is like an anonymous place on the Internet. There, under a randomly assigned taxonomic name, Actinopolyspora visculensis (bacteria) and Hoya camphorifolia (flowering plant), “Detectives” meticulously record errors in the scientific literature. They write about all sorts of…

It’s Getting Too Hot to Make Snow

Ted Shepherd, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in the UK, knows what it’s like to just arrive at a ski resort and find that the snow is vacationing elsewhere. For Christmas he went to Switzerland with his…