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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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News Feature |
Why loneliness is bad for your health
A lack of social interaction is linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia and more. Researchers are unpicking how the brain mediates these effects.
- Saima May Sidik
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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 |
How can we make PhD training fit for the modern world? Broaden its philosophical foundations
- Ganesh Alagarasan
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Correspondence |
Allow researchers with caring responsibilities ‘promotion pauses’ to make research more equitable
- Daniel H. Lowenstein
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News & Views |
Why hand-operated front brakes were set to be the future of motoring
The complexity of fitting brakes to all four wheels of a car and the simplicity of John Maynard Smith’s ecological models, in the weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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News |
Is IVF at risk in the US? Scientists fear for the fertility treatment’s future
An Alabama court ruling that human embryos outside the uterus should be regarded as children has raised concerns among doctors and scientists.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Book Review |
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
- Candice L. Odgers
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News |
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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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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News |
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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News |
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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Futures |
The real time-travel paradox was the friends we made along the way
Life at the cutting edge.
- Rodrigo Culagovski
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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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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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News & Views |
How Sydney Harbour Bridge was shaping up 100 years ago
Plans for Sydney’s iconic landmark become concrete, plus a ‘Michelin Guide’ to superconductive tunnelling, in the weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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Comment |
How a tree-hugging protest transformed Indian environmentalism
Fifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change.
- Seema Mundoli
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Research Briefing |
A delay that makes wireless communication faster
Cutting-edge communication (6G and beyond) will rely on precise time control of large amounts of wirelessly transferred information. To achieve this precision, a ‘quasi-true time delay’ chip has been designed that packs as much time delay as possible into a tiny area using 3D waveguides whose length can be varied as required.
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News |
Abortion-pill challenge provokes doubt from US Supreme Court
Lawsuit could roll back access to mifepristone, a drug widely used to induce abortion in the United States.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Research Highlight |
A horse cemetery in London reveals medieval mounts’ distant origins
Horses buried near the royal complex of Westminster in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had been imported from as far away as Scandinavia.
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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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Essay |
How did the Big Bang get its name? Here’s the real story
Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins — 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight.
- Helge Kragh
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Comment |
How to achieve safe water access for all: work with local communities
Four scientists reflect on how to foster a more sustainable relationship between water and society amid complex and wide-ranging challenges.
- Farhana Sultana
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- & Michael D. Blackstock
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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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News |
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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News |
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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Article
| Open AccessPersistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time
Long conversations online consistently exhibit higher toxicity, yet toxic language does not invariably discourage people from participating in a conversation, and toxicity does not necessarily escalate as discussions evolve.
- Michele Avalle
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- & Walter Quattrociocchi
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Correspondence |
Meaningfulness in a scientific career is about more than tangible outputs
- Anna Alexandrova
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News & Views |
From the archive: constantly quivering eyes, and chemistry troubles
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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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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Essay |
Are we all doomed? How to cope with the daunting uncertainties of climate change
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when thinking about the damage that might be wrought by global warming — but that is missing the point.
- Adam Sobel
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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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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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News |
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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Book Review |
Verbose robots, and why some people love Bach: Books in Brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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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 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
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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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Muse |
Do black holes explode? The 50-year-old puzzle that challenges quantum physics
Stephen Hawking’s paradoxical finding that black holes don’t live forever has profound, unresolved implications for the quest for unifying theories of reality.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Career Column |
Three actions PhD-holders should take to land their next job
A hiring manager reveals the lessons he learnt when transitioning from a PhD programme to industry.
- Fawzi Abou-Chahine
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News |
Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect
Some large language models harbour hidden biases that cannot be removed using standard methods.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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News |
Ancient malaria genome from Roman skeleton hints at disease’s history
Genetic information from ancient remains is helping to reveal how malaria has moved and evolved alongside people.
- Tosin Thompson
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Nature Podcast |
Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why
Data suggest menopause evolved to enable older female whales to help younger generations survive, and how researchers made a cellular map of the developing human heart.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Article
| Open AccessGlobal supply chains amplify economic costs of future extreme heat risk
A global high-resolution disaster footprint analytical model is developed to show substantial socioeconomic impacts from climatic change-driven heat stress through the global supply chain by 2060 due to direct and indirect effects on health and labour productivity.
- Yida Sun
- , Shupeng Zhu
- & Dabo Guan
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Article
| Open AccessLast-mile delivery increases vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone
A cluster randomized controlled trial in Sierra Leone shows that targeting access to vaccines in remote areas increases uptake, an approach that can be used to improve vaccine equity in developing countries.
- Niccolò F. Meriggi
- , Maarten Voors
- & Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
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Correspondence |
On the ethics of informed consent in genetic data collected before 1997
- Martin Zieger
- , Yann Joly
- & Maria Eugenia D’Amato