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‘Extremely worrying’: Argentinian researchers reel after election of anti-science president
As part of his plan to address the country’s economic crisis, Javier Milei has promised to slash research funding and shut down key science agencies.
- Martín De Ambrosio
- & Fermín Koop
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Correspondence |
Universities should denounce terrorism and antisemitism
- Dan Mishmar
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- & Tzipora Falik-Zaccai
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Editorial |
How our memories of COVID-19 are biased — and why it matters
Our view of the effectiveness of past pandemic responses is influenced by our present vaccination status. Public inquiries and future research must take this factor into account.
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World View |
The world’s chemical-weapons stockpiles are gone — but a new challenge looms
Continued efforts to maintain the ban on chemical weapons depend on nations sharing information to further build trust and global safety.
- Peter J. Hotchkiss
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Nature Index |
China must draw on internal research strength
The domestic pool of talent is deep, but international links are still crucial for maintaining the country’s role in the search for global solutions.
- Cong Cao
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Gaza’s broken health-care system is compounding the risk of disease
- Ru’a Rimawi
- & Navid Madani
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World View |
Sudan’s disastrous war — and the science it is imperilling
Ongoing conflict has displaced students and destroyed institutions that were once among Africa’s best. Small projects show how a brighter future can be built
- Mohamed H. A. Hassan
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How to rebuild trust in science: NIH director nominee fields questions
US senators grilled Monica Bertagnolli during a hearing over her plans for the National Institutes of Health, including how she will repair the agency’s reputation.
- Max Kozlov
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Argentina election: front runner vows to slash science funding
If elected president, economist Javier Milei has pledged to eliminate government spending on research and shut down the environment and health ministries.
- Martín De Ambrosio
- & Fermín Koop
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Nature Index |
Polar researchers strive for progress despite adverse world events
The pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine have had a significant impact on international collaboration and field access.
- Rachel Nuwer
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US science agencies on track to hit 25-year funding low
Despite last year’s CHIPS and Science Act, which was meant to boost innovation, report predicts that Congress will cut spending on science.
- Jeff Tollefson
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‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine
Neuroscientist Sergiy Sylantyev tells Nature that science and war cannot be separated.
- Layal Liverpool
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South Korean scientists’ outcry over planned R&D budget cuts
In a nation with historically high levels of spending on research and development, the proposed cuts have provoked a strong response.
- Sara Reardon
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World View |
The UK’s rollback of climate policies will cost its citizens and the world
Incoherent new climate-policy messages by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will dissolve the UK’s climate leadership, stifle innovation’s momentum and cost consumers.
- Joeri Rogelj
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How a US government shutdown could disrupt science
Tens of thousands of federal researchers might have to stop work on 1 October — but the shutdown’s effects could ripple well beyond government.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Shock delay to net-zero pledges turns UK from climate leader to laggard
It could have shown vision and leadership. Instead, the country that proudly hosted the 2021 COP26 climate summit is ignoring the advice of its own researchers.
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Proposed law could protect academic freedom across Europe
Some European governments are tightening their political grip on universities, sparking calls for action.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Book Review |
Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’
The physician-researcher who spoke out against misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against science are formidable — and getting worse.
- Julian Nowogrodzki
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News Explainer |
The UK’s post-Brexit EU science deal: a graphical guide
Nature explores the United Kingdom and European Union’s research agreements, brokered through seven years of rollercoaster negotiations.
- Nisha Gaind
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Japanese fund to create ‘Ivy League’ gives first award to just one university
A plan to create an elite group of institutes has surprised researchers as government makes Tohoku University the sole recipient of grant.
- Anna Ikarashi
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A win for science: UK finally joining Horizon Europe will boost research
The United Kingdom will be part of the world’s largest research funding scheme once more. And it’s not a moment too soon.
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Russia’s war in Ukraine is disrupting Antarctic science
The polar region is demilitarized, but the conflict is posing a threat to important climate data collected at Ukraine’s research station.
- Layal Liverpool
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Horizon Europe turmoil changed the lives of these five scientists
UK researchers can once again access the €95-billion funding programme — for some, the deal has come too late.
- Miryam Naddaf
- & Lilly Tozer
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Scientists celebrate as UK rejoins Horizon Europe research programme
UK researchers had been frozen out of the scheme for two years, amid disagreements over Brexit.
- Katharine Sanderson
- & Miryam Naddaf
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Article
| Open AccessEuropeans’ support for refugees of varying background is stable over time
Surveys conducted in 15 European countries in 2016 and 2022 show stable attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees with different attributes over this period with a slight increase in support for asylum seekers in general.
- Kirk Bansak
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Influence of Facebook algorithms on political polarization tested
A landmark collaboration shows that Facebook’s news feed filters partisan political news to users with the same views. But changing the feed algorithm to reduce exposure to like-minded content does not reduce political polarization.
- David Garcia
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Nature Podcast |
Facebook ‘echo chamber’ has little impact on polarized views, according to study
An experiment which tweaked social media algorithms found no effect on polarization of views.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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| Open AccessLike-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
A large-scale field intervention experiment on 23,377 US Facebook users during the 2020 presidential election shows that reducing exposure to content from like-minded social media sources has no measurable effect on political polarization or other political attitudes and beliefs.
- Brendan Nyhan
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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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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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US congressional hearing produces heat but no light on COVID-origins debate
A showdown over an influential early publication has done little to prepare the country for the next pandemic, observers say.
- Max Kozlov
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News Explainer |
Disinformation researchers under investigation: what’s happening and why
US researchers have spent years studying how conspiracy theories spread. Now they are accused of helping to suppress conservative opinions.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Hundreds file suit targeting Mexico’s divisive science law
Scientists and some opposing lawmakers say the passing of the legislation violated normal procedures.
- Myriam Vidal Valero
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War shattered Ukrainian science — its rebirth is now taking shape
The war is far from over but Ukraine’s government is already considering how to build back — and use the opportunity to move on from a Soviet-era system.
- Nisha Gaind
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Why is India dropping evolution and the periodic table from school science?
India’s curriculum body needs to explain why it has removed foundational topics from school textbooks.
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Japanese government draws ire over plans to reform influential science council
The government has backed down from its unpopular proposal — but has made a new one.
- Tim Hornyak
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Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search
Ecologically valid data collected during the 2018 and 2020 US elections show that exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news on Google Search are driven not primarily by algorithmic curation but by users’ own choices.
- Ronald E. Robertson
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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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Nature Index |
China overtakes United States on contribution to research in Nature Index
Data on affiliations suggest that authors from China made the largest contribution to high-quality natural-science research in 2022.
- Simon Baker
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Thousands protest Mexico’s new science law
Researchers are preparing to march against legislation that some say could harm basic science.
- Myriam Vidal Valero
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What Thailand’s election of a radical new government means for science
The new government faces a difficult task to stimulate research and development, hampered by an unskilled workforce.
- Margaret Simons
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The world’s top chemical-weapons detectives just opened a brand-new lab
The state-of-the-art centre will help to enforce a near-universal ban on certain chemicals and train analysts from around the world.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Shielding science from politics: how Joe Biden’s research integrity drive is faring
Representatives of US whistleblower organisations deliver their verdict on a strategy to protect federal scientists and their research.
- Adam Levy
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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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Nature Careers Podcast |
How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive
Ukrainian scientists reflect on their country’s invasion by Russia, how to halt a postwar brain drain and how collaborations with Russian colleagues have suffered.
- Adam Levy
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White House to tap cancer leader Monica Bertagnolli as new NIH director
Long-awaited decision comes more than a year after Francis Collins resigned as director of the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world.
- Max Kozlov
- & Heidi Ledford