Newborn Baby Rescued From Sewage Pipe, Neighbors Hear Crying

Firefighters in an eastern Chinese province rescued a an apparently-abandoned newborn infant from a sewage pipe after neighbors reported hearing crying. Officials in China’s Zhejiang Province rescued the infant on Saturday afternoon. Reports from Chinese media indicated the baby was found in the toilet sewage pipe in a residential building in the city of Jinhua…

Fallout from hailed cloning paper

Duplicated figures raise debate over expedited publication. How fast is too fast for review of a scientific article? And who has the responsibility to ensure accuracy? Errors found in a widely acclaimed cloning study have rekindled those questions — and sent the lead author and the journal that published it scrambling to assure the world that…