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News

Rage against machine learning driven by profit

Industry research funding is vastly eclipsing academia’s spend, but healthy development demands broad input.
Brian Owens

News feature 18 Sep 2024
Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on
Alix Soliman

News 13 Sep 2024
US and China inch towards renewing science-cooperation pact — despite tensions
Natasha Gilbert, Smriti Mallapaty

News 10 Sep 2024
Researchers built an ‘AI Scientist’ — what can it do?
Davide Castelvecchi

News 30 Aug 2024
Japan moves to halt long-term postgraduate decline by tripling number of PhD graduates
Tim Hornyak

News 29 Aug 2024

Comment

Artificial intelligence laws in the US states are feeling the weight of corporate lobbying
Emmie Hine

Comment 18 Sep 2024
Rise of ChatGPT and other tools raises major questions for research
Simon Baker

Comment 18 Sep 2024
Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature
Guillaume Cabanac

Comment 28 Aug 2024
How South Korea can build better gender diversity into research
Heisook Lee, Heajin Kim

Comment 21 Aug 2024

Data

AI’s international research networks mapped
Dataviz 18 Sep 2024
The stars of South Korea's research scene
Alexia Austin

Data insights 22 Aug 2024
South Korean science on the global stage
Dataviz 21 Aug 2024
Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders: Chinese institutions dominate the top spots
Bec Crew

Data insights 18 Jun 2024

Careers

Africa’s postdoc workforce is on the rise — but at what cost?
Linda Nordling

Careers 2 Apr 2024
How to enhance lab-team efficiency with tools from the tech industry
Lathan Liou, Akshay Swaminathan

Careers 1 Feb 2024
How co-working labs reduce costs and accelerate progress for biotech start-ups
Rachel Brazil

Careers 29 Jan 2024
Why postdocs need entrepreneurship training
Muhammad Shehryar Khan, Jeffrey Casello

Careers 13 Nov 2023

Q+A

No more hunting for replication studies: crowdsourced database makes them easy to find
Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Q+A 27 Aug 2024
The UK launched a metascience unit. Will other countries follow suit?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Q+A 7 Aug 2024
Researchers want a ‘nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts
Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Q+A 17 Apr 2024
How institutions can tap into research managers’ potential
Bec Crew

Q+A 26 Feb 2024