The Frontier

A seminal 2006 Nature paper by Sylvain Lesné and Karen Ash, which proposed a specific amyloid oligomer as the toxic cause of Alzheimer's, was retracted after Schrag and Piller found its Western blot images were severely manipulated to support the hypothesis.

Aardvark proposes a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction scheme using Lamport signatures, which results in a 10,000-byte script size and requires 150 dummy signatures with hash commitments.