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Career Column |
How Dark Souls and Darth Revan helped me to make sense of my professorship
John Tregoning compares academia to role-playing video games as a way to discuss how the choices we make can affect the paths we take.
- John Tregoning
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Book Review |
Prebunking propaganda, and how to live well: 2023’s best of Books in brief
Connoisseur Andrew Robinson gives ten of his favourite tomes from the year a more expansive review.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
How to parent AI, and climate change vs democracy: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Podcast |
Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
The astronomer joins us to talk about her memoir Life on Other Planets.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Book Review |
Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals?
To understand the true otherness of Neanderthals, researchers must rethink the meaning they give to their archaeological finds, argues a new book.
- Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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News |
The world’s largest proteins? These mega-molecules turn bacteria into predators
A candidate for the largest known protein might help killer aquatic bacteria to devour other microbes — but it’s not easy to study the behemoths, or prove they’re even real.
- Ewen Callaway
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Book Review |
Writing dissected, and big answers to simple questions: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How to create compelling scientific data visualizations
Start with pen and paper, keep things simple, do your coding at the end, say data visualization specialists.
- Julie Gould
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How ChatGPT and sounds from space brought a ‘luminous jelly’ to life
Engineer-turned-artist Diana Scarborough and inorganic chemist Anna Melekhova describe how their art–science collaboration gave voice and form to a new material.
- Julie Gould
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Essay |
How AI is expanding art history
From identifying disputed artworks to reconstructing lost masterpieces, artificial intelligence is enriching how we interpret our cultural heritage.
- David G. Stork
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Book Review |
Why genes mean less than you think, and other reads: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Scientific illustration: striking the balance between creativity and accuracy
A misleading image in a medical textbook could have life and death implications, but some disciplines can deploy myth and metaphor to convey their science through art.
- Julie Gould
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Career Q&A |
As an artist-scientist, ‘I’m obsessed with pigments’
Biochemist Sierra Weir explores local ecosystems around Pittsburgh for art and inspiration.
- Robin Donovan
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News |
The Israel–Hamas conflict: voices from scientists on the front lines
The deadly 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, have upended lives — including those of researchers throughout the region.
- Nature news team and freelance reporters
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Book Review |
Why we fall for scams, and the new is bad for the planet: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
Thrilling volcanoes, astonishing beetles and numbers made material: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
The first digital pandemic, and the dangers of economic nationalism: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Correspondence |
Indigenous schools in Brazil as a tool for acculturation
- André Calixto Gonçalves
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Nature Podcast |
'This doesn't just fall on women': computer scientists reflect on gender biases in STEM
Two researchers share their experiences and discuss the inequalities that impact women in the computer sciences.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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Book Review |
Octopus emotions, and past lessons for present innovation: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Q&A |
My double life as a cell biologist and crime writer
Achieving tenure enabled Frances Brodsky to focus on her research, write three novels and launch a journal.
- Miles Lizak
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News & Views |
From the archive: the value of MSc degrees, and painting tips
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Book Review |
Mountains of waste, and how to make fossil fuels obsolete: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Careers Podcast |
“Just get the admin to do it.” Why research managers are feeling misunderstood
Science benefits when there is mutual respect between academics and research managers. Team Science, a six-part series, begins by examining a key workplace relationship.
- Dom Byrne
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News Q&A |
From the lab to the World Cup: meet footballer–scientist Michelle Alozie
The professional athlete and research technician explains why focus, collaboration and teamwork are important on and off the pitch.
- Lilly Tozer
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Book Review |
The complexity of viruses, and understanding pain: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Q&A |
The Indigenous rocketeer
Nicole McGaa combined Indigenous knowledge with engineering to build a rocket for the First Nations Launch competition.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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News Feature |
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty
A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.
- Myriam Vidal Valero
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Book Review |
How to be successful as a research mathematician? Follow your gut
Mathematics has a reputation of being all about cold, calculating logic — but that couldn’t be further from the truth, says Eugenia Cheng.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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News & Views |
From the archive: the tenacity of eels, and weatherproofing St Paul’s
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Book Review |
The bitter-sweet history of sugar, and the marvels of measurement: Books in Brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Arts Review |
Dr Semmelweis review: Mark Rylance play shows how hand washing saved hundreds of lives
Professional pride and personal tragedy stymied ideas about how infections spread in the nineteenth century, suggests a show about maverick Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.
- Georgina Ferry
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News Q&A |
Barbie and body image: a scholar’s take on the research — and the blockbuster film
A clinical health psychologist speaks to Nature about Barbie’s influence on how women and girls view their bodies.
- Emma Marris
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Book Review |
Adventures in the psyche, and the three metamorphoses of silk: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Feature |
How to create a lab-group logo that stands out from the crowd
An eye-catching logo says a lot about your lab’s research, workplace culture and collaborative potential. Take time to get it right.
- Andy Tay
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Research Highlight |
Memorable artworks are easy to predict
People who had viewed a selection of paintings tended to recall the same works — which artificial intelligence could predict, too.
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Book Review |
The future of water, and 150 years of invisibility: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Correspondence |
Enlightened Indian science tradition is not entering a dark age
- Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal
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Career Feature |
How to hatch, brew and craft the perfect maths partnership
Mathematicians and their collaborators discuss the joys and challenges of working together on projects in science and the arts.
- Rachel Crowell
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Book Review |
The ocean’s engine, and the science of reading: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
How to prebunk misinformation, and the daredevil of the Nile: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Column |
Scientific utopias: scientific enlightenment in the Stupid Questions Office
Earlier this year, Nature co-sponsored a science-fiction essay competition. According to runner-up Miles Lizak’s science-fiction essay, an ideal research institution would foster curiosity and collaboration, placing greater value on asking brave questions rather than claiming to know all the answers.
- Miles Lizak