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Nobel prize-winning scientist, Randy Schekman, is boycotting top science journals, Nature, Cell, and Science for encouraging corner-cutting, flawed and fraudulent papers and not concentrating on topics beneficial to science, humanity and society.

Once again revealing to the human race just how much we don't know, the newly discovered exoplanet HD 106906b has been found to defy long-held beliefs on how planets and stars are formed.

Scientists have discovered a new species of carnivorous dinosaur which lived alongside and competed with the tyrannosaurus rex 98 million years ago.

While a new public opinion poll shows European Union citizens feel favorably about science and technology, the poll also reveals that very few actually know what the recent advances have been.

The long-standing diabetes drug metformin has been found to have properties against different types of cancer: uterine, liver, pancreatic, colon, lung, ovarian and breast.

Once again, the pseudo-scientific outfit known as the Discovery Institute is attempting to attack evolution and anyone who fights for science education.

E-cigarettes have long been controversial in the health world. Find out what true doctors and scientists have discovered about the effects of e-cigarettes to the human body.

A well-written spoof research paper has appeared. The paper concerns a fictional superhero, and outlines the molecular keys to the Marvel comics creation Wolverine’s regenerative abilities.

Augusto Odone, a former World Bank economist, who defied medical opinion and created an oil to save the life of his son Lorenzo, has died in Italy at the age of 80. He was suffering from a neurological disease.

There is a strong possibility that asteroid strikes, which occurred over a billion years ago, gave Earth a very good portion of its water.