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Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.
- Dan Garisto
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Will the Gates Foundation’s preprint-centric policy help open access?
Revised policy says grant recipients must share manuscripts as preprints — and removes support for article-processing charges.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Editorial |
The EU’s ominous emphasis on ‘open strategic autonomy’ in research
A reboot of the flagship Horizon Europe fund risks prioritizing a mindset geared towards security over open, future-facing research collaboration.
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Editorial |
Time to sound the alarm about the hidden epidemic of kidney disease
With rates rising around the world, public-health leaders must prioritize prevention, treatment, funding and data.
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Correspondence |
How can we make PhD training fit for the modern world? Broaden its philosophical foundations
- Ganesh Alagarasan
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Correspondence |
Adopt universal standards for study adaptation to boost health, education and social-science research
- Dragos Iliescu
- & Samuel Greiff
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Correspondence |
Allow researchers with caring responsibilities ‘promotion pauses’ to make research more equitable
- Daniel H. Lowenstein
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World View |
Impact factors are outdated, but new research assessments still fail scientists
A move away from narrow assessment metrics such as publication records is welcome. Now planning and consultation is needed to make sure that replacements work better.
- Kelly Cobey
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Career Feature |
Africa’s postdoc workforce is on the rise — but at what cost?
Will a growth in postdoctoral positions across Africa cause bottlenecks, replicating the career-progression challenges faced by scientists elsewhere?
- Linda Nordling
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Comment |
A 2023 hurricane caught Mexico off guard: we must work together to prepare better
Hurricane Otis yields lessons for researchers and policymakers on how to reduce risks in the face of inequality.
- Gian C. Delgado-Ramos
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- & Miguel Imaz-Lamadrid
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Where I Work |
How I use tide gauges to develop geospatial maps
Geographer Muh Aris Marfai collects reference data for Indonesia’s coastal areas to prepare for the impacts of climate change.
- Nikki Forrester
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Career Feature |
How scientists are making the most of Reddit
As X wanes, researchers are turning to Reddit for insights and data, and to better connect with the public.
- Hannah Docter-Loeb
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Career Q&A |
Overcoming low vision to prove my abilities under pressure
A genetic eye condition pushed biochemist Kamini Govender to develop coping strategies that serve her well in the lab and help her to avoid burnout.
- Lesley Evans Ogden
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Career Column |
How a spreadsheet helped me to land my dream job
A shared spreadsheet, passed from generation to generation, helps graduate students in management navigate the academic job market. Whatever your field of study, you can make one, too.
- Silvia Sanasi
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The corpse of an exploded star and more — March’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
- Emma Stoye
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Sam Bankman-Fried sentencing: crypto-funded researchers grapple with FTX collapse
Organizations who received funds from FTX face pressure to return the money at significant operational cost.
- Jonathan O'Callaghan
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How papers with doctored images can affect scientific reviews
Scientists compiling a review scan more than 1,000 papers and find troubling images in some 10%.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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Nature is committed to diversifying its journalistic sources
The latest data are in on the diversity of people interviewed for the journal’s News, Features and Careers articles, and audio and video content.
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Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations
Analysis of a random selection of papers shared on social media showed no causative link between posting and citations.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Career Feature |
Maple-scented cacti and pom-pom cats: how pranking at work can lift lab spirits
Whether for April Fools’ Day or year-round, practical jokes allow scientists to tap into creative thinking while building group camaraderie.
- Amanda Heidt
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Journal editors are resigning en masse: what do these group exits achieve?
Editorial rebellions seem to be on the rise, as researchers seek more control over scholarly communication.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Correspondence |
Cuts to postgraduate funding threaten Brazilian science — again
- Marcus F. Oliveira
- & Adriane R. Todeschini
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Correspondence |
Superconductivity case shows the need for zero tolerance of toxic lab culture
- Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner
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World View |
‘Exhausted and insulted’: how harsh visa-application policies are hobbling global research
Institutions and individuals from low- and middle-income countries are wasting time, effort and money trying to get visas for research travel, only to be rejected. A new approach is needed.
- Sandra Owusu-Gyamfi
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Correspondence |
The ‘Anthropocene’ is here to stay — and it’s better not as a geological epoch
- Thomas P. Roland
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- & Alastair Ruffell
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Correspondence |
Don’t underestimate the rising threat of groundwater to coastal cities
- Daniel J. Rozell
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Career Q&A |
The beauty of what science can do when urgently needed
Working amid New York City’s pandemic response inspired Nili Ostrov’s approach to expanding the list of organisms that can be used in synthetic biology and engineering.
- Katherine Bourzac
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Where I Work |
I peer into volcanoes to see when they’ll blow
Mariton Antonia Bornas runs a Filipino volcano research and response organization.
- Margaret Simons
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Nature Index |
Larger or longer grants unlikely to push senior scientists towards high-risk, high-reward work
A survey of US professors suggests that broad changes to grant schemes might be needed to incentivize new approaches to research.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Nature Careers Podcast |
‘Hopeless, burnt out, sad’: how political change is impacting female researchers in Latin America
Already feeling invisible and unappreciated, the election of far-right administrations in Argentina and elsewhere are unsettling for women in science.
- Julie Gould
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Is AI ready to mass-produce lay summaries of research articles?
A surge in tools that generate text is allowing research papers to be summarized for a broad audience, and in any language. But scientists caution that major challenges remain.
- Kamal Nahas
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Editorial |
Are we in the Anthropocene yet?
Measurement matters, but should not detract from the reality that humans are altering Earth systems.
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Career Q&A |
‘Woah, this is affecting me’: why I’m fighting racial inequality in prostate-cancer research
Olugbenga Samuel Oyeniyi sought a career with a stronger public-health focus after learning that Black men are twice as likely as white men to get prostate cancer.
- Jacqui Thornton
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It’s final: the Anthropocene is not an epoch, despite protest over vote
Governing body upholds earlier decision by geoscientists amid drama.
- Alexandra Witze
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What Putin’s next term means for science
Researchers in Russia expect growing isolation as Vladimir Putin embarks on six more years as president.
- Olga Dobrovidova
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Correspondence |
Meaningfulness in a scientific career is about more than tangible outputs
- Anna Alexandrova
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Correspondence |
‘Global swimways’ on free-flowing rivers will protect key migratory fish species
- Twan Stoffers
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- & Fengzhi He
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Technology Feature |
So … you’ve been hacked
Research institutions are under siege from cybercriminals and other digital assailants. How do you make sure you don’t let them in?
- Michael Brooks
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Editorial |
A fresh start for the African Academy of Sciences
New leadership is giving the academy a stronger voice for the continent’s scientists, following one of its most testing periods.
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Is the Mars rover’s rock collection worth $11 billion?
Budget woes force NASA to reassess Perseverance’s travel plan, and seek cheaper ways of getting samples back to Earth.
- Alexandra Witze
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Where I Work |
I study small organisms to tackle big climate problems
Marine biologist Gabriel Renato Castro cultivates compounds from cyanobacteria to support agriculture and the environment.
- Nikki Forrester
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Connecting girls in Brazil to inspiring female scientists
Physicist Carolina Brito leads an initiative to smash gender stereotypes in science.
- Julie Gould
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How to stop ‘passing the harasser’: universities urged to join information-sharing scheme
The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme would make it harder for perpetrators to hide their past, advocacy group says.
- Sarah Wild
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Career Feature |
Four years on: the career costs for scientists battling long COVID
Many with the condition have found ways around their health problems, but they say more employer support is needed.
- Shi En Kim
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Career Column |
People, passion, publishable: an early-career researcher’s checklist for prioritizing projects
Stuck between several lines of research? Here’s how we decide which ones to pursue, say Elizabeth Tenney, Jacqueline Chen and McKenzie Preston.
- Elizabeth Tenney
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Career Column |
Divas, captains, ghosts, ants and bumble-bees: collaborator attitudes explained
Olga Lehmann made sense of challenges she faced in teamwork by analysing how she and her colleagues behaved and what she could have done differently.
- Olga Lehmann
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Career Column |
A year in the life: what I learnt from using a time-tracking spreadsheet
A low-tech solution helped Megan Rogers to increase her productivity and maintain a good work–life balance.
- Megan Rogers
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Arts Review |
A Black mathematical history
Documentary reveals how Black US scholars shaped today’s mathematics community and provides hope for the future.
- Noelle Sawyer
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Career Feature |
The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer
Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life.
- Anne Gulland