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The University of Toronto has closed a historic astronomy laboratory despite protests from researchers. Astronomer Tom Bolton (above) sits sorrowfully in front of the U. of Toronto's David Dunlap Observatory while volunteers carry out his belongings. This month the university plans to shutter the historic facility, where Mr. Bolton discovered evidence of black holes. (Photograph by Peter Redman, National Post)

Purdue Finds Fusion Researcher Guilty of Misconduct

Secrecy Tied to Federally Financed Projects May Be Reduced

Access to Online Journals Is Found to Reduce Breadth of Citations

NIH Clinical-Research Program Trims Money for Universities

Journal Editors Call for Single Set of Financial-Disclosure Rules

BEHIND THE MUSIC: Economists debate whether file sharing ruined CD sales — and whether the paper that claimed it did interpreted the data accurately.

TOWARD A STANDARD: Science and medical journals should institute uniform rules for authors' disclosure of their financial ties, a group of editors and ethicists say.

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The College Art Association's decision to settle with a scholar who felt defamed by an article in one of its scholarly journals shines a spotlight on so-called "libel tourism."

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Books on the Society of Dilettanti; modernists and Cretan myth; and Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos.

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