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How science could aid the US quest for environmental justice
Research tools to identify and help protect disadvantaged communities have been in the works for years. Scientists and activists want them put into action.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Correspondence |
Frustration over Chinese academic database charges
- Hong-Wei Xiao
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- & Xiao-Ming Fang
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Technology Feature |
Unlocking the potential of health data to help research and treatments
Medical records can be tricky to access because of confidentiality and variability, but data-sharing efforts are helping to overcome these hurdles — without compromising patient privacy.
- Jyoti Madhusoodanan
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Time to recognize authorship of open data
The open data revolution won’t happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.
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Your brain expands and shrinks over time — these charts show how
Based on more than 120,000 brain scans, the charts are still preliminary. But researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians.
- Max Kozlov
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| Open AccessA joint NCBI and EMBL-EBI transcript set for clinical genomics and research
Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) delivers joint transcript sets from Ensembl/GENCODE and RefSeq for standardizing variant reporting in clinical genomics and research.
- Joannella Morales
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- & Terence D. Murphy
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.
- Holly Else
- & Jeffrey M. Perkel
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World View |
Commit to transparent COVID data until the WHO declares the pandemic is over
Governments and organizations responsible for crucial COVID data must do more not less.
- Edouard Mathieu
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Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Technology Feature |
Terra takes the pain out of ‘omics’ computing in the cloud
The web-based tool allows scalable, user-friendly computation across multiple data sets
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Homicide is a top cause of maternal death in the United States
Evaluation of death certificates from national database paints grim picture for pregnant women.
- Nidhi Subbaraman
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Carbon emissions rapidly rebounded following COVID pandemic dip
As the COP26 climate summit rolls along, the latest data underscore countries’ dangerous dependence on fossil fuels.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online
Catalogue of billions of phrases from 107 million papers could ease computerized searching of the literature.
- Holly Else
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Career Column |
How to make your research reproducible
Ensuring that your work is reproducible is not as daunting or complicated as you might think. Experts share their tips.
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
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How the world’s biggest brain maps could transform neuroscience
Scientists around the world are working together to catalogue and map cells in the brain. What have these huge projects revealed about how it works?
- Alison Abbott
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World View |
COVID’s lessons for climate, sustainability and more from Our World in Data
International agencies need the mandate, funds and expertise to connect information — otherwise pandemics, hunger and unsustainability will go unsolved.
- Hannah Ritchie
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Leader of WHO’s new pandemic hub: improve data flow to extinguish outbreaks
Former Nigeria CDC leader Chikwe Ihekweazu talks with Nature about the COVID crisis, and strengthening global response to future public-health emergencies.
- Amy Maxmen
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World View |
Biology must generate ideas as well as data
Data should be a means to knowledge, not an end in themselves.
- Paul Nurse
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Technology Feature |
Drowning in the literature? These smart software tools can help
Search engines that highlight key papers are keeping scientists up to date.
- David Matthews
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The Venezuelan health-care workers secretly collecting COVID stats
Faced with government suppression and limited resources, doctors and nurses are quietly working with research networks to report reliable data.
- Luke Taylor
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Correspondence |
Bespoke open databases would be cheaper and easier to analyse
- Nikolaus Obwegeser
- , Henrik M. Rønnow
- & Tomoko Yokoi
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The powers and perils of using digital data to understand human behaviour
Computational social science is a powerful research tool. But it needs its different disciplines to find a common language.
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Everyone should decide how their digital data are used — not just tech companies
Smartphones, sensors and consumer habits reveal much about society. Too few people have a say in how these data are created and used.
- Jathan Sadowski
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- & Meredith Whittaker
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Nature Index |
Materials science shows strength
Stuff of hope in the search for solutions to intractable problems.
- Catherine Armitage
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Nature Index |
Machines learn to unearth new materials
Materials genome initiatives sift big data.
- Neil Savage
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Nature Index |
High-performing places in the materials world
Four heavyweights and a rising star, in highlights.
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Forensic database challenged over ethics of DNA holdings
Geneticists say a global Y-chromosome database holds profiles from men who are unlikely to have given free informed consent.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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Correspondence |
Diagnostic genomic laboratories should share their data
- Kok-Siong Poon
- & Evelyn Siew-Chuan Koay
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality available free online at natureindex.com.
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Correspondence |
COVID-19: build on Belgium’s psychosocial findings
- Elke Van Hoof
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Why some researchers oppose unrestricted sharing of coronavirus genome data
Global-south scientists say that an open-access movement led by wealthy nations deprives them of credit and undermines their efforts.
- Amy Maxmen
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Correspondence |
Fix databases that fail with two surnames
- Jorge Mira Pérez
- & M. Carmen Parafita Couto
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One million coronavirus sequences: popular genome site hits mega milestone
GISAID’s impressive effort to understand the spread of COVID-19 has seen scientists upload sequences from most nations on Earth.
- Amy Maxmen
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Correspondence |
Genomics data: the broken promise is to Indigenous people
- Krystal S. Tsosie
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- & Joseph M. Yracheta
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Nature Podcast |
Coronapod: Why COVID antibody treatments may not be the answer
Uptake in the United States has been low, despite several authorized therapies and promising clinical trial results.
- Noah Baker
- & Heidi Ledford
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality available free online at natureindex.com.
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Nature Podcast |
Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know?
Data show increased chance of hospitalisation, but risks to babies appear slight.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Nidhi Subbaraman
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Nature Podcast |
Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory
Where did the coronavirus come from?
- Benjamin Thompson
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News Q&A |
Which are the best pandemic policies? Data trackers are trying to judge
Thousands of scientists and volunteers have charted the way governments have responded to COVID-19.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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Nature Podcast |
Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions
A repository with millions of data points will track immunity and variant spread.
- Benjamin Thompson
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- & Amy Maxmen