Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital recently called for the retraction of 31 studies they say contain falsified or fabricated data. All were tied to the lab of one researcher who has been under investigation for a range of misconduct. Major cases of scientific fraud like this one often make headlines. But hundreds more studies are retracted each year -- most with very little fanfare. One place they do show up is the Retraction Watch website. Cofounders Ivan Oransky and Adam

An international group of scientists and legal scholars are warning that a federal research program called Insect Allies could unintentionally lead to biological weapons. The program funder, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), says the end goal is to improve agriculture by genetically modifying crops in the field using insects. But critics worry that it could easily be weaponized.

For thousands of years, Atlantic salmon – known as the King of Fish – ran almost every river northeast of the Hudson. And for decades, the first fish caught in Maine’s Penobscot River was actually presented to the president of the United States in a “first fish” ritual.

When the names of the 2018 Nobel Laureates in physics were announced earlier this month there was immediate excitement to see a woman's name on the list. Donna Strickland became the third woman ever to win a Nobel in physics and the first in more than 50 years. It seemed like progress for women in science.

Rural Americans now cite the opioid addiction epidemic on par with jobs and the economy as the most pressing problems facing their communities. That's according to an NPR poll released this past week. A new NOVA special brings viewers face to face with that reality.

The U.N.’s most recent special report on climate science was eye-opening for many. But for the four million or so people who live in the Arctic, the potentially catastrophic impacts of rapid global warming are a daily reality more than a shocking headline.

Much has been said about the lack of science advice reaching the Trump administration. There is still no director of the white house office of science and technology policy – the person who usually serves as the President’s top science advisor. The position of science and technology advisor to the secretary of state is vacant, and the EPA says it plans to eliminate the office of the science advisor to that agency’s administrator.

Minke whales may not be New England's best known or most charismatic whales, but some Massachusetts residents have gotten an up close look at them in recent months as several dead minkes have washed up on shore.

On the heels of the U.N. report released last weekend, Hurricane Michael rekindled the conversation about hurricanes and climate change – transforming in two days from a tropical storm to the strongest hurricane to hit Florida since 1851. There is no question that such rapid intensification is fed by warm ocean temperatures, and that the ocean is warmer now, and will continue to get warmer as a result of our greenhouse gas emissions.

The latest report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that we could cross the threshold of one point five degrees Celsius of global warming as soon as 2030 – just twelve years from now – and besides the devastating impacts of heat waves, droughts, and extreme precipitation, that much warming could trigger irreversible and escalating changes in Artic permafrost and Antarctic ice sheets.