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Career Column |
Parenting, illnesses and medical commitments: the private details grant reviewers shouldn’t need to know
Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal circumstances?
- Nathalie Bock
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Nature Careers Podcast |
The problem with career planning in science
Having too rigid a plan could result in exciting opportunities passing you by, warns Ottoline Leyser.
- Julie Gould
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Editorial |
UNESCO stands at a crossroads — researchers must back its new leader
Khaled El-Enany, the agency’s first director-general from an Arab state, will lead the UN’s education, science and cultural organization through one of its most severe tests.
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World View |
How journals can break down barriers for Latin American scientists
The publishing ecosystem must do more to tackle inequities; quotas and partnerships with societies can help.
- Mariana Viglino
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News |
Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll
Hundreds of people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received lay-off notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended.
- Jenna Ahart
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- & Alexandra Witze
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Editorial |
The spectre of malnutrition is back and must be tackled — fast
Nobody should be going hungry in the twenty-first century. Scientists must determine the reasons why malnutrition is increasing so policymakers can act.
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World View |
Inside our university’s mission to pivot to research
Innovation is key to meeting today’s global challenges. This is why the University of Botswana, originally a teaching institution, is now fostering research, and others should take the leap.
- Doreen Ramogola-Masire
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Comment |
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
- Andrew Macintosh
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- & Johan Rockström
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News |
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Career Column |
What an academic misconduct accusation taught me about sharing research
Posting preliminary results on my group’s website allowed someone to plagiarize our work, but it also exonerated us.
- Jack W. Baker
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Career Column |
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics
A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever.
- Lei Zhu
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Comment |
Metals are key to the global economy — but three challenges threaten supply chains
The metals industry must confront metals’ scarcity, rising demand and climate impacts. Sustainable solutions exist that must be embraced.
- Tarasankar DebRoy
- , Todd A. Palmer
- & Tuhin Mukherjee
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Book Review |
Alchemy: discredited pseudoscience or chemistry’s worthy ancestor?
A spirited tour of alchemy shows how it bridged everything from chemical reactions, medicine and craft to philosophy, art and religion.
- Kit Chapman
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News |
Rebuilding Gaza: don’t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts
Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as ceasefire is agreed in the first phase of a peace deal.
- Michele Catanzaro
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News |
Dangerous ‘nitazene’ opioids are on the rise: researchers are worried
This class of synthetic opioids is more potent than heroin and morphine.
- Mohana Basu
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News Q&A |
The world’s first plastics treaty is in crisis: can it be salvaged?
Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Career Column |
This list of non-negotiables helped me to defeat PhD-student guilt
By refusing to bend the rules I set for myself, I created structure and a better environment for my mental health.
- Jasmine Gabriel Hughes
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News |
More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
- Jenna Ahart
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Obituary |
Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.
- Michael J. Novacek
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How to pause and restart your science career
Funding crises, bereavement and a supervisor’s relocation can derail your career path, but you can overcome them.
- Julie Gould
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News |
Low-quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a ‘paper mill’ company.
- Miryam Naddaf
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Nature Podcast |
How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring
Images from across the web portray women as being younger than men, despite the underlying reality — plus, astronomers’ favourite exoplanets, and the 2025 Nobel prizes.
- Benjamin Thompson
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News & Views |
Distorted representations of age and gender are reflected in AI models
A big-data analysis shows that online content represents men as older than women in the same occupations and social roles, and that AI reproduces these warped presentations.
- Ana Macanovic
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News |
‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data
MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery.
- Elie Dolgin
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Correspondence |
Incentives accelerate progress on open access in Spain
- Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado
- & Daniel Torres-Salinas
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World View |
Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery
The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.
- Dashun Wang
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Correspondence |
Stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas
- Jenna Sullivan-Stack
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- & Fabrice Stephenson
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Editorial |
The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone
It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference.
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Comment |
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it
Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.
- Roberto Di Cosmo
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- & Nicolas P. Rougier
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Comment |
Customizable AI systems that anyone can adapt bring big opportunities — and even bigger risks
Open and adaptable artificial-intelligence models are crucial for scientific progress, but robust safeguards against their misuse are still nascent.
- Yarin Gal
- & Stephen Casper
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Where I Work |
Connecting the dots: I trace the history of the East Kolkata Wetlands
Environmental-humanities researcher Jenia Mukherjee uncovers the complex relationship between people, canals and wetlands in Kolkata, India.
- Nikki Forrester
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Career Feature |
27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs
Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.
- Linda Nordling
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Book Review |
The cutting-edge medical approaches that could transform ageing
An optimistic take on the state of the longevity field provides hope for treating a range of ageing-related diseases — but feels at odds with the current shape of US research.
- Coleen T. Murphy
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Career Feature |
Wonder, empathy, life: why we called our pregnancy-diagnostic company Mirvie
Struggling to agree on a meaningful moniker for your start-up? This firm’s founders turned to their employees for inspiration.
- Jacqui Thornton
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News Feature |
Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon
Other researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.
- Jenna Ahart
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Editorial |
Weaponizing uncertainty in science and in public health puts people in harm’s way
Those who cite scientific studies to support policies should take care to tell the whole story, especially when it’s complex.
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News |
These science prizes want to rival the Nobels: how do they compare?
Being named as a Nobel laureate is the ultimate prize for many scientists, but how do other science prizes compare?
- Chris Simms
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Career Feature |
Research assessment: a round-up for early-career researchers
Confused by research evaluation and its potential impact on career progression? Here are some pointers as to how things work in different parts of the world.
- Holly Else
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Keep, lose, add: a checklist for plotting your next career move in science
Julie Gould learns of a career-planning framework that can help pinpoint what you love about your current role, and how that can influence future job moves.
- Julie Gould
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Career News |
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures
Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.
- Amanda Heidt
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Career Feature |
Scooped by a cupcake business: why we called our green-cement company Sublime Systems
Chief executive and co-founder Leah Ellis browsed a rhyming dictionary before adapting a word that leapt out after discovering her first choice was already taken.
- Jacqui Thornton
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Career Feature |
Memorable, distinctive, not too ‘sciencey’: why we named our biotech firm Anocca
Chief executive Reagan Jarvis describes the role a branding agency had in naming his technology company.
- Jacqui Thornton
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News |
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
- Rachel Fieldhouse
- & Mohana Basu
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Nature Index |
How research hospitals are meeting the world’s health challenges
Priorities for medical research depend on a country’s stage of development and the money available.
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World View |
Six journal rejections and a major rethink: why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too
Outlining the trial-and-error processes that are involved in every research project could help others to become more efficient and paint a more honest picture of life as a researcher.
- Séverine Toussaert
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Nature Index |
China’s research hospitals push for prominence
The country’s output in quality health research is going from strength to strength, but can it overcome questions about the integrity of its publishing practices?
- Brian Owens
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News |
Will your study change the world? This AI tool predicts the impact of your research
A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have the biggest societal impact.
- Brian Owens
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Nature Index |
Fixing the imbalance in cancer rates between Black and white women
In the United States, more Black women die of cancer than white women. This study aims to understand that disparity.
- Anna McKie