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Julie Gould explores professional identity and motivation by asking five researchers how they keep a childhood love of science alive, despite the setbacks.
Funders require that researchers clearly explain their science to a general audience. Pakinam Amer discovers the secrets of sound science communication.
Adam Levy delves into the article of the future, examining the rise of lay summaries, the pros and cons of preprint servers, and how peer review is being crowd-sourced and opened up.