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Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study.

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“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

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