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The best-kept secrets to winning grants

With competition for research funding approaching an all-time high, experts reveal their top tips and tricks.

News | 25 May 2017
Jupiter’s secrets revealed by NASA probe
A deep ammonia plume and a powerful magnetic field are among the many surprises uncovered by the Juno mission.
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Nature Focus: Lab Animal
Lab Animal, a Nature Research journal, presents a special Focus on Disease models: reproducibility and translation.

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News | 26 May 2017
Monument to peer review unveiled in Moscow
Cornerstone of modern science immortalized in concrete.
News | 24 May 2017
Quantum computing, election pledges and a thief who made science history
The week in science: 19–25 May 2017.
News | 24 May 2017
Fund to curb outbreaks and chronic disease on the chopping block
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stands to lose 12% of its budget through proposed cuts in the American Health Care Act.
News | 24 May 2017
Colombian biologist cleared of criminal charges for posting another scientist’s thesis online
Diego Gómez had faced up to eight years in jail in closely watched copyright case whose verdict has been appealed.
News | 24 May 2017
Fleeting phase of planet formation discovered
These celestial bodies coalesce into objects shaped like giant red blood cells.
News | 24 May 2017
China expands DNA data grab in troubled western region
Alarms raised over suspected efforts to collect massive numbers of genetic samples from citizens.

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Research Highlights | 27 May 2017
Tumour cells avoid crowds
Key chemical signals drive cancer cells to migrate as their density increases.
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Research Highlights | 26 May 2017
Small bodies: Cloud of chaos
- Luca Maltagliati
Nature Astronomy 1, 0168
Research Highlights | 26 May 2017
The risky business of stored gas
Natural gas storage wells at risk of leaking are more widespread across the United States than previously thought.
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Research Highlights | 26 May 2017
Alzheimer disease: Peripheral Aβ clearance — a therapeutic strategy for AD?
- Heather Wood
Nature Reviews Neurology
Research Highlights | 26 May 2017
Immunity: Beyond classical genetics
- Guillaume Tena
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Research Highlights | 26 May 2017
Asthma and allergy: The NET effect of respiratory viruses
Rhinovirus infections exacerbate asthma by inducing the release of neutrophil extracellular traps.
- Yvonne Bordon
Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 346–347

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Comments and Opinion | 24 May 2017
Doctorates: PhD gender gap
US science PhD programmes still attract more men than women, except in biology and agricultural sciences.
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Comments and Opinion | 24 May 2017
Education: Combine and conquer
Completing two graduate degrees can offer great flexibility.
- Amber Dance
Nature Jobs 545, 515–517
Comments and Opinion | 17 May 2017
Work–life balance: Break or burn out
Taking time off from work is crucial for avoiding stress and depression, and their potential consequences.
- Kendall Powell
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