Even though America's 250th birthday is still one year away, there happens to be a fun, unique, mathematical fact about this year's 249th birthday.

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The Center for Scientific Integrity — the non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch — has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake medical-research papers and ...