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Nature Podcast |
Climate special: the past and future of the Earth's climate
Reassessing 24,000 years of global temperatures, and on the ground at COP26.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Shamini Bundell
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Nature Podcast |
Genomics unwraps mystery of the Tarim mummies
The unexpected origins of a 4,000-year-old people, protecting your ‘digital presence’ and what to expect from COP26.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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News Feature |
The broken $100-billion promise of climate finance — and how to fix it
At Glasgow’s COP26 summit, countries will argue for more money to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.
- Jocelyn Timperley
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Correspondence |
Recognize 727 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves for biodiversity COP15
- Alicia D. Barraclough
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- & Kaera Coetzer
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News & Views |
From the archive
Nature’s pages feature a 1971 review of a psychiatry book and a report from the 1921 Museums Association conference.
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Career Feature |
The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers
Starting a family at a key career stage comes at a cost to birthing parents — and many end up leaving the profession as a result.
- Kendall Powell
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Career Column |
How a holistic research retreat can help our science
After an existential crisis, we realized we needed to think more deeply about our careers, say Örjan Bodin and Christopher M. Weible.
- Örjan Bodin
- & Christopher M. Weible
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Career Guide |
Lightning talks: science in 5 minutes or less
How scientists are perfecting the art of boiling down their work into a short, sharp hit.
- Chris Woolston
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Correspondence |
A dangerous, wrong or unneeded experiment? Don’t do it
- Matthew Cobb
- & Robert Pollack
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Career Column |
Education outreach can inspire the next generation of scientists
David Hiller finds that the joy of exploring maths and science with kids rivals his best days in the lab.
- David Hiller
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Career Guide |
Good presentation skills benefit careers — and science
Despite many competing demands, there are compelling reasons for researchers to prioritize developing the skills that will improve their presentations.
- David Rubenson
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Correspondence |
Fix databases that fail with two surnames
- Jorge Mira Pérez
- & M. Carmen Parafita Couto
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World View |
People of faith are allies to stall climate change
Together, religious groups and scientists can be a powerful force for a liveable planet.
- Tobias Müller
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Career Guide |
Raising my hand to ask a question terrifies me, and I am not alone
Simon Evans struck a chord when he asked if others worry asking seminar questions.
- Simon Evans
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Career Guide |
Linguistic tricks to grab your online audience’s attention
Virtual meetings can suck the life out of a presentation. Pausing, probing and varying your pitch will keep your muted listeners hooked.
- Valerie Fridland
- & Ruth Gotian
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Correspondence |
Disabled scientists’ networks call for more support
- Maria Niedernhuber
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- & Nicole Brown
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News |
Scientists want virtual meetings to stay after the COVID pandemic
A Nature poll shows that a year of online research conferences has brought big benefits, but blending them with in-person meetings in future will be a challenge.
- Ariana Remmel
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News |
Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record
The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.
- Nidhi Subbaraman
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News |
A year of virtual science conferences: how are you managing?
Nature is polling readers about the move to online meetings during the COVID pandemic.
- Ariana Remmel
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Career Column |
Why you should consider becoming a doctoral representative
Join a group that represents PhD researchers to improve the working environment of your colleagues and to make friends.
- Michaela Löffler
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Career Feature |
Rethinking travel in a post-pandemic world
Climate scientists recommend ways to boost the value of virtual conferences and reduce carbon footprints even when travel curbs ease.
- Josie Glausiusz
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Career Feature |
Ways to look after yourself and others in 2021
Scientists offer their views on what’s important for the coming year.
- Virginia Gewin
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Where I Work |
‘I want to generate opportunities for Black scientists’
UK geoscientist Christopher Jackson will be the first Black researcher to deliver a Christmas lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
- Virginia Gewin
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Correspondence |
Combine resilience and efficiency in post-COVID societies
- Benjamin D. Trump
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- & William Hynes
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Career Column |
Why your scientific presentation should not be adapted from a journal article
In trying to be rigorous, scientists frequently pack presentations with content from journal articles. The result can be incomprehensible and a lost opportunity.
- David Rubenson
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News |
Who are science’s frequent flyers? Climate researchers
Survey finds climate scholars take more flights on average per year — but make greater effort to offset their emissions.
- Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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Career Column |
Spare a thought for longitudinal diversity
The shift to virtual conferences needs to be accompanied by a sensitivity to people in different time zones.
- Geoff Goodhill
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Career News |
How researchers overturned US sanctions on a virtual summer school
US rules forced an online neuroscience course to block people in Iran from signing up, but the organizers won a last-minute reprieve.
- Christine Ro
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Career Feature |
What’s on the agenda for post-pandemic meetings?
Conferences could become more affordable, international and inclusive if virtual events become ‘the new normal’.
- Nic Fleming
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Comment |
An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19
Biennials, regional hubs and virtual attendance can slash emissions, new calculations show.
- Milan Klöwer
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Career Column |
Organizing a virtual conference changed the way we think about academic exchange
Flying around the world to give a ten-minute presentation to an exhausted audience is a model long overdue for reform, say sustainability researchers Christina Bidmon, Cristyn Meath and René Bohnsack.
- Christina Bidmon
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- & René Bohnsack
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Correspondence |
Make space for scientists from minority groups to share their experiences
- Gustavo Gavrel Pacheco
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News Round-Up |
SpaceX launch marks first new craft to carry people to orbit in 17 years
The latest science news, in brief.
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News Feature |
How scientific conferences will survive the coronavirus shock
Virtual meetings are becoming the norm under COVID-19 and winning over many researchers: part 3 in a series on science after the pandemic.
- Giuliana Viglione
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News Round-Up |
Radiocarbon reboot and a boost for virtual scientific conferences
The latest science news, in brief.
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Career Feature |
Learning to love virtual conferences in the coronavirus era
COVID-19 has provided an opportunity to rethink the scientific conference. If online meetings become the norm, how can researchers make the most of them?
- Chris Woolston
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News |
‘Loving the minimal FOMO’: First major physics conference to go virtual sees record attendance
The American Physical Society held its massive April Meeting online because of coronavirus — and registrations soared.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Career Column |
How to defend a PhD remotely
Alyssa Frederick defended her thesis remotely before the coronavirus outbreak began. Here’s how.
- Alyssa Frederick
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Career Column |
Boosting the signal in scientific talks
A few modest adjustments to the planning and delivery of talks can help scientists share ideas with their peers more effectively, say Scott St. George and Michael White.
- Scott St. George
- & Michael White
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Correspondence |
Brazil’s researchers overturn government ruling
- Leandro F. M. Rezende
- & Gabriela A. Wagner
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News |
A year without conferences? How the coronavirus pandemic could change research
As scientific meetings are cancelled worldwide, researchers are rethinking how they network — a move that some say is long overdue.
- Giuliana Viglione
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Career Feature |
Make scientific meetings a welcoming place for patient partners
As science increasingly looks to co-produce research with patients, how can conference organizers help to accommodate non-scientists at academic meetings?
- Andy Tay
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Correspondence |
Disaster-zone research: make participation voluntary
- Sanae Midorikawa
- & Akira Ohtsuru
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Correspondence |
Disaster-zone research: no need for a customized code of conduct
- James Kendra
- & Tricia Wachtendorf