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When a biomedical study is retracted, most of the time it is because of misconduct rather than error, a report published Monday said.

• 02 октября 2012, 15:22

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral cover in the past 27 years due to storms, poisonous starfish and bleaching linked to climate change.

• 02 октября 2012, 13:57

Female Republican politicians look more feminine than their Democratic counterparts, according to a study published Thursday based on facial features of US women lawmakers.

• 29 сентября 2012, 10:50

Global sales of so-called smart connected devices -- computers, smartphones and tablets -- rose sharply in the past quarter, driven by smartphones and tablets.

• 28 сентября 2012, 10:39

A rapidly worsening water shortage threatens to destabilize the planet and should be a top priority for the UN Security Council and world leaders.

• 12 сентября 2012, 12:04

There's enough wind to power the world many times over, according to a study out Monday, but it would take a massive infrastructure investment to harness it that analysts say is not realistic.

• 11 сентября 2012, 14:22

Adding a few minutes to attempts to resuscitate patients who suffer a heart attack in hospital can significantly boost their chances of survival.

• 05 сентября 2012, 12:39

The death toll from landslides is 10 times higher than generally estimated, with most fatalities occurring in South Asia, China and Latin America.

• 18 августа 2012, 10:47

The questions arising from a new probe which says elite athletes who have to travel very long distances are nearly three times likelier to fall ill than when they play at home.

• 09 августа 2012, 16:59

A university study that claimed fracking for gas deep beneath the Earth's surface did not cause water contamination was led by a US professor with financial ties to the gas industry.

• 29 июля 2012, 12:54

Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the three-decade-old disease.

• 28 июля 2012, 14:08

Sunbed users run a 20 percent higher risk than non-users of developing skin cancer, according to a report that blamed some 800 melanoma deaths in Europe every year on indoor tanning.

• 25 июля 2012, 18:05

Three decades of safe-sex messages to gays have failed to stem the spread of HIV among a population at greater risk of the AIDS virus than heterosexuals, experts warned in The Lancet on Friday.

• 21 июля 2012, 13:21

North Korea's notoriously harsh secret police consists of vast and sometimes competing agencies that will pose a major challenge to any potential attempts at reform.

• 20 июля 2012, 10:27

Cat Pause proudly describes herself as "fat", can live with euphemisms like "curvy", "chunky" or "chubby", but baulks at what she believes are value-laden labels such as "overweight" or "obese".

• 14 июля 2012, 12:04

Kazakhstan is the leader among Central Asian countries by the number of its students who study in the U.S.

• 26 ноября 2011, 12:19

Kazakhstan is the leader by difference in life expectancy of men and women. This difference is over 10 years: the study.

• 09 июля 2011, 15:57