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Editorial |
A DARPA-like agency could boost EU innovation — but cannot come at the expense of existing schemes
If Europe wants to create a high-risk, high-reward research body, it needs grass-roots backing.
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Career Feature |
How I fled bombed Aleppo to continue my career in science
Aref Kyyaly’s quest to find a safe place, away from Syria, to do research taught him perseverance. Don’t give up, is his advice.
- Benjamin Plackett
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News |
Dozens of Brazilian universities hit by strikes over academic wages
Some professors and staff members have been on strike for as long as four weeks as they seek better conditions at their institutions.
- Jeff Tollefson
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World View |
Expat grants won’t fix Brazilian research
Permanent jobs and fairer hiring practices would encourage overseas scientists to return.
- Juliano Morimoto
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News |
Argentina’s pioneering nuclear research threatened by huge budget cuts
President Javier Milei is making moves to partially privatize the sector, but in the meantime, projects have paused.
- Martín De Ambrosio
- & Fermín Koop
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Nature Podcast |
Sex and gender discussions don't need to be toxic
The science of sex and gender is too often misinterpreted and weaponized. Now, three experts cut through the misinformation in search of a positive future for this long-neglected area of research
- Lucy Odling-Smee
- , Florence Ashley
- & Noah Baker
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News |
This social sciences hub galvanized India’s dynamic growth. Can it survive?
The Centre for Policy Research has lost its chief executive, most of its staff and is running out of cash.
- Michele Catanzaro
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News |
NIH pay rise for postdocs and PhD students could have US ripple effect
Salary increases for the 17,000-plus recipients of an NIH research award could lead to increases in other academic settings.
- Amanda Heidt
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News |
Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years
Government budget includes more money for basic research and notable increases to postgraduate stipends.
- Brian Owens
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Editorial |
How India can become a science powerhouse
As the world’s largest election kicks off this week, India has an opportunity to reimagine science funding.
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News |
NASA admits plan to bring Mars rocks to Earth won’t work — and seeks fresh ideas
The agency’s head calls the current plan for delivering samples collected by the Perseverance rover ‘too expensive’ and its schedule ‘unacceptable’.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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News |
What the India election means for science
With voting about to start in India’s general election, some researchers are concerned that sluggish funding growth and slow decision-making processes could hold the country back.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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News |
Brazil budget cuts could leave science labs without power and water
The Lula administration is trying to reverse lawmakers’ reductions, which are hitting scientists in the Amazon especially hard.
- Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
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News |
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 |
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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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 |
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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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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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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News |
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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Editorial |
Bring PhD assessment into the twenty-first century
PhD supervisors can learn a lot from innovations at other stages in education.
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News |
Biden seeks to boost science funding — but his budget faces an ominous future
The US president proposes a 2025 budget even as negotiations continue over federal funding for 2024.
- Jeff Tollefson
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- & Alexandra Witze
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News |
China promises more money for science in 2024
Science and innovation are central to China’s national agenda and the country’s efforts to spur economic growth.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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News |
‘Despair’: Argentinian researchers protest as president begins dismantling science
Javier Milei’s actions after taking office have research institutions facing shutdown.
- Martín De Ambrosio
- & Fermín Koop
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News |
Two giant US telescopes threatened by funding cap
The Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope might need to compete for survival in the face of federal spending limits.
- Alexandra Witze
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News |
‘Incomprehensible’: scientists in France decry €900-million cut to research
A €10-billion reduction in public spending in response to a revised economic forecast includes cuts to higher-education and research budgets.
- Barbara Casassus
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Editorial |
Why it would be a dangerous folly to end US–China science pact
With renewal of the two countries’ decades-long science pact still on hold, there is too much talk about the risks of collaboration — and too little about the benefits.
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Career Q&A |
I help researchers build fantastic funding proposals — here’s how
Glòria García-Negredo supports scientists who are writing grant applications, and creates links between research groups.
- Miles Lizak
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Nature Index |
R&D budget cut could be the final straw for South Korea’s young scientists
As early-career researchers, we fear that our peers will struggle to stay afloat amid sudden and confusing budget constraints.
- Bongjae Kim
- & Ara Go
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News |
Indonesian election promises boost to research funding — no matter who wins
Scientists regard campaign promises with scepticism, however, and criticize the country’s science super-agency.
- Ardila Syakriah
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Career News |
Economists count the cost of ‘risky’ science
A survey seeks to define risk in research and how academics approach it in their work.
- Chris Woolston
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News |
CERN’s supercollider plan: $17-billion ‘Higgs factory’ would dwarf LHC
A feasibility study on the Future Circular Collider identifies where and how the machine could be built — but its construction is far from a done deal.
- Elizabeth Gibney
- & Davide Castelvecchi
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World View |
Academia needs radical change — mothers are ready to pave the way
The research system must lose its overly rigid attitude towards career progression — and mothers are uniting to make that happen.
- Fernanda Staniscuaski
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News Feature |
A giant fund for climate disasters will soon open. Who should be paid first?
More than three billion people stand to benefit from a historic climate loss-and-damage fund. But spending it involves agonizing choices about who has suffered most.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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Career Column |
Organize your –80 °C freezer to save time and prevent frozen fingertips
Start the new year by sorting out your lab’s cold storage, to simplify purchasing, improve experiment planning and reduce the frequency of lost samples.
- Kelsey Alexandra Woodruff
- & Christina Marie Termini
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Career Feature |
Insights from four female scientists caught at the early-career crossroads
Facing challenges including parenthood, mental-health strain and financial pressures, these researchers give advice for navigating the uncertain paths before them.
- Lesley Evans Ogden
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News Q&A |
New NIH chief opens up about risky pathogens, postdoc salaries and the year ahead
Nature talks to Monica Bertagnolli about hot-button issues and her top priorities for 2024.
- Max Kozlov
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Correspondence |
New UK immigration rules threaten academic mobility
- Alexander C. Lees
- & Ben C. Sheldon
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Spotlight |
Why 2023 was a bittersweet year for Brazilian science
Expectations were high after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidency. But some scientists are frustrated at the slow pace of change.
- 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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RNA biologist loses disability case against Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Vivian Cheung sued after her funding was not renewed, alleging discrimination, but the institute said her science no longer met its expectations.
- Amanda Heidt
- & Max Kozlov
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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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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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World View |
How to make data open? Stop overlooking librarians
Digital archivists are already experts at tackling the complex challenges of making research data open and accessible. We can help to smooth the transition.
- Jessica Farrell
US halts funding to controversial virus-hunting group: what researchers think