Are researchers’ dogs eating a lot of their homework? Well, yesterday afternoon at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting in Chicago, we found out they kinda are.

Ben Goldacre: Care.data, the grand project to make the medical records of the UK population available for scientific and commercial use, is not inherently evil – far from it – but its execution has been badly bungled. Here's how the government can regain our trust

One of the logistical problems facing long-running publications is the archiving of old material. I say "problem," even though...

While many kinds of analog media age with a kind of dignity, taking on a patina of age and the term “vintage,” the same is generally not true of digital media. Of the range of digital media out there, the humble rewritable CD is likely one of the least loved and most rapidly aging and […]

A new archive is trying to digitize thousands of hours of tape from TV and radio stations across the country—before those tapes disintegrate.

I'm not crying for the NSA here, but it sure drives home the truth that security breaches usually stem from within...

Mark Thompson, now president and chief executive of The New York Times Company, testified that he had never “knowingly misled” Parliament over the project’s progress.

Personal information doesn't get much more personal than your medical history. Ensuring your medical records are secure remains a top priorty for the Federal Trade Commission as they settled their…

Creating Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix was more work than it needed to be, as the original game data was lost a long time ago.

Four of the vintage Macs from ELL were destroyed in shipment to the Pathfinders exhibit at the Modern Language Association convention in Chicago last week. The boxes were delivered in perfect shape; however, when I opened up the first one, the LC 575, I noticed a piece of the top was cracked. As I pulled…

The theft of a University of Minnesota professor’s laptop, portable scanner and external hard drive last February resulted in a data breach of the personal information of 119 victims and witness

STARBUCKS YOU INCOMPETENT BUMBLEF***S.

A filenaming screwup hoses the entire analysis, resulting in a paper retraction.

A lot of what was lost was research data in analog form. Claims for digitization appear to have been false at least in part.

Lack of clinical-trial data sharing meant a lot of taxpayer money wasted on Tamiflu stockpiles.

Hundreds of new pieces of scientific research are published every month, in fields from physics to biology. While the studies themselves are assiduously archived by publishers, the underlying data researchers analyze to come to their published conclusions can be another story. A recent study in the journal Current Biology found that the data that forms the backbone of those studies becomes less and less accessible to researchers over the years. That lack of archiving, says University of British Columbia zoologist Tim Vines, represents a missed opportunity for the scientific community as a whole.