Journalism | Nature

Nature Careers Podcast | 01 December 2023

How to create compelling scientific data visualizations

Start with pen and paper, keep things simple, do your coding at the end, say data visualization specialists.

Julie Gould

Career Q&A | 25 September 2023

‘I remind people all the time that science can wait’

Christopher Reddy helped to quantify the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a stressful experience that changed his view of what it means to be a well-rounded scientist and person.

Katherine Bourzac

News | 15 August 2023

Mohammed Yahia (1982–2023)

World View | 02 August 2022

Retractions are increasing, but not enough

Retraction Watch has witnessed a retraction boom since its founding 12 years ago. But the scientific community must do much more.

Ivan Oransky

Career Column | 23 May 2022

How academic institutions can help to close Wikipedia’s gender gap

The world’s largest online encyclopedia mirrors society’s bias towards male achievements. Employers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine can help to change that.

Farah Qaiser
, Maryam Zaringhalam
& Emily Pinckney

News | 24 August 2021

How Nature’s COVID coverage has made a difference

We analysed the impact of Nature’s coronavirus journalism and opinion. Here’s what we found.

Julian Nowogrodzki

Career Column | 02 August 2021

Radio days: science-communication tips from a panel-show scientist

Psychologist Ann-Marie Creaven regularly discusses her research on Ireland’s most listened-to station.

Ann-Marie Creaven

World View | 19 May 2021

Media bias delegitimizes Black-rights protesters

Linguistic analyses show that powerful sources and sensationalist terms have long dominated coverage of civil-rights protests.

Danielle Kilgo

Correspondence | 19 November 2019

Writer’s secret? Shut the door and no interruptions till you’re done

Killugudi Jayaraman

Nature Podcast | 29 March 2019

Backchat: Calls for a research moratorium, and the evolution of science reporting.

Benjamin Thompson hosts our regular roundtable discussion, with guests David Cyranoski, Alison Abbott and Heidi Ledford.

Career Column | 20 March 2019

Five ways media training helped me to boost the impact of my research

How I learnt to maximize the value of TV, radio and publication interviews to reach and help the people I most want to support.

Caroline Kamau

News | 13 December 2017

Nature’s editor to step down after 22 years in charge

Philip Campbell to continue at publisher Springer Nature.

Quirin Schiermeier

Correspondence | 07 September 2017

Fertile mind that led to unexpected places

Martyn Poliakoff
& Robin Perutz

Q&A | 26 January 2017

Trade talk: Research writer

Leaving the bench for the news desk.

Jack Leeming

Social Selection | 09 May 2016

Researcher under fire for New Yorker epigenetics article

Scientists attack Siddhartha Mukherjee’s feature exploring gene regulation.

Chris Woolston

Correspondence | 10 February 2016

When brain bullets met crowdfunding

Caroline Apra
, Pierre Bourdillon
& Marc Lévêque

Social Selection | 24 July 2015

Scientist criticizes media portrayal of research

A psychology researcher looks at media missteps in reporting work on music and the brain.

Chris Woolston

Feature | 01 April 2015

Authorship: Dynamic duos

Partnering with a writer on a book can bring literary panache to scientific stories.

Roberta Kwok

News | 17 December 2014

Comment pieces of 2014

Our editors' picks of some of the best expert-authored opinion pieces of the year.

News | 17 December 2014

The most-read Nature news stories of 2014

Black holes, stem cells and the changing face of academic publishing were popular topics for our readers in 2014.

Editorial | 17 December 2014

Spin cycle

Pressures in all stages of the news-making process can lead to hype in science reporting.

News | 16 December 2014

Features of the year 2014

The best of Nature’s longer reads, selected by our editors.

Social Selection | 12 December 2014

Study points to press releases as sources of hype

Scientists, press officers and journalists online are pointing fingers in light of a paper that traces the origins of exaggerated claims in health news.

Chris Woolston

News | 13 August 2014

Stem-cell pioneer blamed media 'bashing' in suicide note

Lawyer for Yoshiki Sasai's family reveals motive of Japanese researcher's act following STAP controversy.

David Cyranoski

World View | 09 April 2014

Society needs more than wonder to respect science

Researchers are well placed to explain concepts, but journalists will bring the critical scrutiny needed to integrate science in society, says Susan Watts.