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Technology Feature |
How open-source software could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language
A plethora of standards mean shareable and verifiable microscopy data often get lost in translation. Biologists are working on a solution.
- Michael Brooks
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Career Feature |
Share methods through visual and digital protocols
Documenting experimental methods ensures reproducibility and accountability, and there are innovative ways to disseminate and update them.
- Andy Tay
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Career Column |
Wear your mask, but think about deaf students
Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.
- Olivier Pourret
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News & Views |
From the archive
How Nature reported computer-made music in 1969, and a book on the early history of numbers in 1919.
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News |
Big pharma is embracing open-access publishing like never before
Proportion of open-access publications with authors from the pharmaceutical industry doubled between 2009 and 2016.
- Matthew Warren
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News Q&A |
Open-access pioneer Randy Schekman on Plan S and disrupting scientific publishing
eLife’s departing editor talks about the seismic changes he sees coming — and why some journals will lose out.
- Holly Else
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News |
Rare trial of open peer review allays common concerns
Study suggests that making reviewers’ reports freely readable doesn’t compromise peer-review process.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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News |
What bioRxiv’s first 30,000 preprints reveal about biologists
More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.
- Joshua Rapp Learn
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News |
Open-access row prompts editorial board of Elsevier journal to resign
The board of the Journal of Informetrics has launched a new open-access publication.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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News |
The best science images of the year: 2018 in pictures
California’s worst wildfires, cloned monkey twins, the world’s smallest house and more.
- Mićo Tatalović
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Outlook |
Saving the digital world
A growing proportion of global culture exists only online, presenting a challenge to those tasked with maintaining the historical record.
- Sedeer el-Showk
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News |
Funders flesh out details of Europe’s bold open-access plan
‘Plan S’ will allow researchers to publish in hybrid journals under certain conditions until a 2023 review.
- Holly Else
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News |
Biologists debate how to license preprints
Flood of online manuscripts generates confusion about terms for distribution and reuse.
- Lindsay McKenzie
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News Q&A |
Shining a light on the dark corners of the web
Cybercrime researcher Gianluca Stringhini explains how he studies hate speech and fake news on the underground network 4chan.
- Daniel Cressey
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Toolbox |
The visualizations transforming biology
Inventive graphic design and abstract models are helping researchers to make sense of a glut of data.
- Ewen Callaway
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Toolbox |
Digital forensics: from the crime lab to the library
Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.
- Mark Wolverton
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News |
Nature promotes read-only sharing by subscribers
Publisher permits subscribers and media to share read-only versions of its papers.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Toolbox |
Scientific writing: the online cooperative
Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers.
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
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News |
Chinese agencies announce open-access policies
Researchers will now be required to make papers free to read within one year of publication.
- Richard Van Noorden
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News |
UK open-access movement sways towards low-cost repositories
Higher-education funders encourage academics to archive copies of papers online
- Richard Van Noorden
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News |
Scientists may be reaching a peak in reading habits
Scholarly articles in digital forms overtook printed ones, but survey suggests increase in reading may have levelled off.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Correspondence |
Use multimedia in grant applications
- Michael R. Doran
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News |
Particle-physics papers set free
Tensions as open-access initiative goes live — without the field’s leading journal.
- Richard Van Noorden
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News |
Synthetic double-helix faithfully stores Shakespeare's sonnets
'Error-free’ technique encodes large files in molecular form.
- Ed Yong
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Comment |
Value all research products
A new funding policy by the US National Science Foundation represents a sea-change in how researchers are evaluated, says Heather Piwowar.
- Heather Piwowar
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Books & Arts |
Physics: Modelling Feynman
Daniel Cressey marvels at a gleaming depiction of the subatomic by the world's leading information designer.
- Daniel Cressey
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Books & Arts |
Visualization: Picturing science
Katy Börner weighs up a lavish, lab-friendly guide to transforming dry data into insightful images.
- Katy Börner
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Editorial |
Notes on screen
Computer tablets are changing the way that scientists record their experiments.
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Correspondence |
Non-English papers decrease rankings
- Ton van Raan
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Comment |
Stand up for science
This year showed that good communication can make you a leader, and a better scientist, says Nancy Baron.
- Nancy Baron
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Editorial |
Announcement: Nature's new look
Passion, curiosity and perseverance: my mission to capture women in science on camera
2010 Gallery: Images of the year