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How funding agencies decide which research gets money
Behind most published science sits a grant that someone had to win. Here is how that contest actually works.

Behind most published science sits a grant that someone had to win. Here is how that contest actually works.

A retraction is not a scandal headline. It is the paper trail of science checking its own work.

The committees that protect study volunteers also add months to timelines. The trade-off is deliberate, but the delays have grown.