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Nature Index |
What China’s leading position in natural sciences means for global research
Its rise to the top has been long forecast, but what next for Chinese science in the post-pandemic era?
- Chris Woolston
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Career Column |
UK research assessment is being reformed — but the changes miss the mark
A shift from individual to institutional performance in the next Research Excellence Framework exercise is welcome, but ignores the realities of academia.
- Richard Watermeyer
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- & Kate Sang
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Editorial |
The United Kingdom needs to welcome international researchers to thrive
Scientific strength does not come from severing long-standing relationships or turning away talent from around the world.
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World View |
Saving tens of millions of children a year from the effects of lead poisoning is a surprisingly solvable problem
Funding to help nations eliminate lead paint and other sources of exposure would avert millions of deaths and one trillion dollars a year in income loss.
- Nafisatou Cissé
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News |
Can India’s new billion-dollar funding agency boost research?
India’s proposed National Research Foundation will shake up the scientific landscape to encourage a culture of research.
- Gemma Conroy
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Book Review |
Science’s gender gap: the shocking data that reveal its true extent
Analysis of which researchers publish, get credit, move around, get funding, collaborate and receive citations shows how deeply ingrained the bias against women is.
- Virginia Valian
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Correspondence |
Women’s health: tackle the research funding deficit
- Krina T. Zondervan
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- & Stacey A. Missmer
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News |
Sweden’s researchers outraged at decision to axe development-research funding
Sudden move could derail collaborations that have taken decades to build, scientists say.
- Marta Paterlini
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World View |
How ‘research impact bonds’ could transform science funding
Current funding models have high risks and low accountability. Public–private partnerships offer a better way.
- Michael Hill
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News |
Battles over funding could threaten historic effort to save species
Following the signing of last year’s major biodiversity deal, countries are arguing over how to fairly finance conservation.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Career Column |
How to organize your lab purchases and inventory
Christina Termini’s tweet on her do-it-yourself system for managing lab inventory went viral. Here’s how to implement the tool.
- Nicollette Jessica Setiawan
- & Christina Marie Termini
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World View |
Tackling pervasive sexism in Australian science requires money, leadership and time
Lessons in advancing gender equity in research from my time in the United States at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and in Australia.
- Robin Bell
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News |
NIH to intensify scrutiny of foreign grant recipients in wake of COVID origins debate
Researchers speak out over US biomedical agency’s new funding policy.
- Max Kozlov
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Career Column |
How screenwriting can help your grant writing
What recent film riveted you? What if your next grant proposal engaged reviewers as effectively as that film grabbed you?
- Christine W. Hartmann
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News |
Tanzania’s researchers offered US$22,000 to publish in international journals
The move is designed to encourage research and help boost institutions’ rankings. But some researchers say it will reward those already established in their careers.
- Syriacus Buguzi
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News |
How the US debt-ceiling crisis could cost science for years to come
Investments in research and development are likely to drop — even if the worst-case scenario is avoided.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Editorial |
Research assessment exercises are necessary — but we need to learn to do them better
Australia is overhauling its research evaluation system — an opportunity for it, and other countries, to review what makes a system work for everyone.
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News |
NIH reinstates grant for controversial coronavirus research
EcoHealth Alliance lost funding during the Trump administration, but can now proceed with its research — under extensive restrictions.
- Max Kozlov
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News Feature |
How menopause reshapes the brain
Researchers are starting to learn how the early stages of menopause affect brain health — and what that could mean for treatment.
- Heidi Ledford
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News Feature |
Women’s health research lacks funding — these charts show how
Conditions that affect women more than men garner less funding. But boosting investment could reap big rewards.
- Kerri Smith
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Nature Podcast |
Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up
A focus on women’s health research, and the star caught in the act of devouring a planet.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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Editorial |
UK scientists are right to say no to ‘Plan B’ for post-Brexit research
The United Kingdom’s alternative to EU Horizon Europe funding is near-silent on maintaining the collaborations needed to meet crucial global goals on climate and sustainability.
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News |
Mexico is seeding clouds to make rain — scientists aren’t sure it works
Researchers question the government’s investment, given uncertainties about the technology.
- Myriam Vidal Valero
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News |
Canadian PhD students and postgrads plan mass walkout over low pay
Academics are demanding a significant boost to government-sponsored fellowships and scholarships, which haven’t changed for decades.
- Brian Owens
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News |
Chemist Charles Lieber avoids further prison time for lying about China ties
Ex-Harvard researcher was among the first academics tried under the now-defunct US China Initiative.
- Natasha Gilbert
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News |
Australian researchers welcome plan to curb politicians’ power to veto grants
Under new proposals, ministerial intervention would be limited to projects where national security is at stake.
- Dyani Lewis
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Editorial |
Strengthen links between science and high finance
Influential studies have helped regulators to spot problems at banks and step in before they spread. But, as the events of the past month show, stability must not be allowed to breed complacency.
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Career Feature |
Leaving academia for industry? Here’s how to handle salary negotiations
Don’t sell yourself short when talking about pay, annual leave and other benefits, say scientists who have made the move.
- Sarah Wild
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Career News |
Scientists with multiple NIH grants are overwhelmingly male and white
Lack of diversity among elite group of investigators funded by US National Institutes of Health poses ‘substantial threat’ to biomedical research.
- Linda Nordling
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Nature Index |
European Union appeals for interdisciplinary collaboration in new funding model
Brussels hopes that getting scientists from different fields to work together on big issues will bring innovations such as viable hydrogen energy infrastructure to the market more quickly.
- Charles Ebikeme
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Correspondence |
NIH funding: hone efforts to tackle structural racism
- Adesuwa Akhetuamhen
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News |
Global scholars decry funding ban on influential Indian research centre
International dismay after New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research funding suspended.
- Dyani Lewis
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News |
Mars rocks await a ride to Earth — can NASA deliver?
The stakes are high as the agency contemplates the technological and financial hurdles ahead for its sample-return mission.
- Alexandra Witze
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News |
Long COVID exercise trials proposed by NIH raise alarm
Advocates ask the US biomedical agency to rethink the design of its RECOVER initiative, citing possible harm and funding waste.
- Rachel Fairbank
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News Q&A |
Biden’s science adviser on the US push to compete with China
Arati Prabhakar speaks to Nature about innovation, science’s role in political decision-making and taking the reins after scandal.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Correspondence |
Funding bias: nurture European researchers’ independence
- Sandeep Chowdhary
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- & Federico Battiston
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News Q&A |
‘Open for business’: risk-taking US health agency ready to spend $2.5-billion budget
One year after the launch of ARPA-H, Nature talks to director Renee Wegrzyn about her vision for the agency.
- Max Kozlov
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News |
What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse means for science start-ups
Bailouts mean customers’ deposits are safe, but the bank’s demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Nature Index |
Will Japan’s new ¥10-trillion university fund lift research performance?
Endowment inspired by US Ivy League model must be accompanied by other reforms, critics say.
- David McNeill
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Nature Index |
Is Japan’s research decline turning a corner?
Efforts on funding and helping early-career researchers could be bearing fruit, but major challenges remain.
- Benjamin Plackett
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Nature Index |
Shoring up Japan’s research performance
The government’s university endowment scheme is a ‘big moment’ for Japanese science, says Takahiro Ueyama.
- David McNeill
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Editorial |
‘Elite university’ strategies might boost profile and rankings — but at what cost?
Japan plans to share US$2 billion annually between a handful of top universities. Experience from elsewhere suggests the negatives of this approach might outweigh the positives.
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Nature Index |
‘Golden tickets’ on the cards for NSF grant reviewers
The agency is considering giving peer reviewers one-time vetoes to push through support for unconventional science.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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News |
Will UK science’s ‘lost’ £1.6 billion ever come back?
Negotiations on Horizon Europe dragged on — and UK-based researchers came up short.
- Brian Owens
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Editorial |
Nature welcomes Registered Reports
From this week, Nature will be publishing an additional type of research paper — designed to encourage rigour and replication.
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Correspondence |
Refine retraction notices to avoid damaging fallout
- Shaoxiong Brian Xu
- & Guangwei Hu