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Correspondence |
More work is needed to take on the rural wastewater challenge
- Jinlou Huang
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- & Xiao Jin Yang
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Editorial |
Rwanda 30 years on: understanding the horror of genocide
Researchers must support and elevate the voices of Rwanda’s scholars and survivors.
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Comment |
AI can help to tailor drugs for Africa — but Africans should lead the way
Computational models that require very little data could transform biomedical and drug development research in Africa, as long as infrastructure, trained staff and secure databases are available.
- Gemma Turon
- , Mathew Njoroge
- & Kelly Chibale
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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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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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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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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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Outlook |
Fungal diseases are spreading undetected
Low- and middle-income countries are grappling with widespread shortages of diagnostic tests for infections that kill millions.
- Charles Schmidt
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Article
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Last-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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Career Q&A |
‘This is my calling’: building point-of-care diagnostic tools to fight tuberculosis
Mireille Kamariza talks about her journey from community college to biotech chief executive, and the uphill battle to stop the spread of the deadly lung disease.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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Nature Index |
How institutions can tap into research managers’ potential
The editors of a book exploring the perspectives of research managers talk about how policymakers and institutional leaders can better support these essential professionals.
- Bec Crew
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Career Q&A |
A researcher-exchange programme made me a better doctor at home and abroad
Caleb Skipper describes how global health collaborations bring valuable transfers of knowledge to both sides of the Atlantic.
- Christopher Bendana
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Nature Index |
Innovative funding systems are key to fighting inequities in African science
A few countries and a select number of institutions will continue to take the vast majority of grants unless funders build diversity into their grant programmes.
- Susan Gichoga
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Nature Careers Podcast |
‘Blue foods’ to tackle hidden hunger and improve nutrition
Aquatic foods have been overlooked in moves to end food insecurity. That needs to change, says Christopher Golden.
- Dom Byrne
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Career Q&A |
From a pocketful of rocks to scientific director of palaeontological research
PhD candidate Dirley Cortés says that it takes grit and guts to navigate the challenges of being a Latin American woman in palaeontology.
- Efrain Rincon
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Editorial |
Research funders must join the fight for equal access to medicines
Pandemic treaty is a rare opportunity to ensure pandemic-related technologies are accessible and affordable to all.
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Why we should think about more than cash when seeking to eradicate poverty
Catherine Thomas’s research explores different approaches to alleviating poverty, including cash transfers and psychosocial programs.
- Dom Byrne
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Correspondence |
Centres of Excellence in AI for global health equity — a strategic vision for LMICs
- Hossein Akbarialiabad
- & Nelson K. Sewankambo
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Outlook |
Yaws could soon be eradicated — 70 years behind schedule
Researchers are cautiously optimistic that the neglected tropical disease could be gone by 2030, but new barriers — including antibiotic resistance and primate reservoirs — might stand in the way.
- Sam Jones
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Spotlight |
Politics and the environment collide in Brazil: Lula’s first year back in office
Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva grapples with deforestation, fossil-fuel pledges and commitments to Indigenous communities — all while having to work with a conservative Congress.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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Editorial |
End the glaring inequity in international science collaborations
The world’s natural-science research ecosystem remains focused on the priorities of high-income countries. Funders, publishers and scholarly databases can do more to help to rebalance that.
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Article |
Global population profile of tropical cyclone exposure from 2002 to 2019
A global profile of tropical cyclone population exposure for the period 2002–2019 shows a steady increase, with approximately 560 million people exposed yearly and a disproportionate exposure among those with lower socioeconomic status.
- Renzhi Jing
- , Sam Heft-Neal
- & Zachary Wagner
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Nature Index |
North–south country collaborations reveal untapped potential
The global north still dominates such partnerships in the Nature Index.
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Nature Index |
North–south publishing data show stark inequities in global research
Major investment and a shift in strategy are needed to back up the endeavour of researchers.
- Simon Baker
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Spotlight |
India’s year in science
The country has made history in many ways in 2023, but is it using science and technology enough to help its economic and social development?
- Jack Leeming
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Nature Index |
Is the EU–Africa innovation plan toothless?
Meaningful investment might be essential for fixing power imbalances in science and innovation.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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Nature Index |
Four global-south researchers making cross-border collaborations count
Researchers in the developing world navigate many roadblocks when partnering with the global north, but the benefits can be wide-reaching.
- Virginia Gewin
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Nature Index |
How to level the global publishing playing field
Alternative strategies could shift a system that is stacked against the global south.
- Tom Kariuki
- & Elizabeth Marincola
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Spotlight |
Where science meets Indian economics: in five charts
Nature explores how better investment in science might help India’s economic development.
- Andy Tay
- & Jack Leeming
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Spotlight |
India struggles to turn science into societal benefits
Entrepreneurial researchers can find solutions for Indian problems, but the lack of a spin-off culture means the country loses out.
- David Adam
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Spotlight |
The fight against antimicrobial resistance
India is developing local solutions to a global problem that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Spotlight |
Renewable energy for the subcontinent
India has invested heavily in wind, solar and storage technology to hit net zero by 2070, but some don’t think it’s doing enough.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Spotlight |
The climate disaster strikes: what the data say
A series of impact assessments highlight India’s vulnerability to extreme weather events and the risks they pose to human health.
- Shannon Hall
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Spotlight |
Big ideas: India’s drive to stem the brain drain
The Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship is among a number of schemes set up to attract talented scientists back to India. Diaspora and returning researchers share their career decisions.
- Virginia Gewin
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Spotlight |
How high-impact papers from Indian researchers are shaping science
Studies to tackle air quality in Delhi and solve the mystery of an emerging pathogen are among those helping to raise the profile of Indian science.
- Michael Eisenstein
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Nature Index |
Women who travel boost research networks at home — but only in countries with high gender equity
Researchers moving between institutions in low- and middle-income countries can confer wide-reaching benefits on their colleagues.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Editorial |
Frugal innovation: why low cost doesn’t have to mean low impact
Science is starting to recognize the movement to create mass-market products using local knowledge and materials to improve lives around the world.
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Nature Podcast |
The world’s smallest light-trapping silicon cavity
Researchers exploit intermolecular forces to carve a nanoscale hole, and investigating whether poverty can be reduced without increasing emissions.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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Article
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Ending extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
Global emissions associated with the economic growth needed to alleviate extreme poverty are limited.
- Philip Wollburg
- , Stephane Hallegatte
- & Daniel Gerszon Mahler
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Outlook |
Putting low-cost diagnostics to the test
The COVID-19 pandemic brought home the value of cheap, ‘good enough’ methods of detecting disease. Extending that approach to other illnesses could improve health care in low- and middle-income countries.
- Michael Eisenstein
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Outlook |
Tropical diseases move north
As Earth warms, the creatures that spread neglected tropical diseases are gaining a foothold in Europe. Wealthy countries must prepare themselves for more cases.
- Claire Ainsworth
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Nature Index |
Fastest-rising nations look to solidify research gains
India–US partnerships heat up, as China contemplates rebuilding links with the West.
- Bec Crew
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Nature Index |
African researchers’ work is being overlooked — here’s how to change that
The continent’s scientists see opportunities in international collaborations that are rooted in Africa, rather than originating in Europe and North America.
- Munyaradzi Makoni
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Career Q&A |
I advocate an African research agenda for African development
As Uganda’s science minister, Monica Musenero pushes to connect scientific research to economic development in her country and her continent.
- Christopher Bendana
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Outlook |
Mental health: The invisible effects of neglected tropical diseases
The psychological burden of disability and stigma has been overlooked, to the detriment of those affected and their carers.
- Simon Makin
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Editorial |
Half a million children die of malaria every year. Finally we can change that
With two vaccines available, this killer disease could now be eliminated — but will the world pull together to make it happen?
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Career Feature |
Climate change pits clan against clan in drought-hit Somalia
Amid battles for water and grazing land, an awareness of local power dynamics is key, says United Nations adviser Christophe Hodder.
- Shihab Jamal
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Career Feature |
Tracking women’s mental health amid trauma in Yemen
Psychologist Anjila Sultan returned to the city where she grew up, after witnessing the effects of war and cultural pressures on mothers and children.
- Shihab Jamal
How to meet Africa’s grand challenges with African know-how