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Correspondence |
Biodiversity needs both land sharing and land sparing
- Matthew Selinske
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- & Georgia E. Garrard
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Nature Podcast |
Fruit flies’ ability to sense magnetic fields thrown into doubt
Study fails to replicate two key papers on fruit flies’ magnetic sense, and what the closing of the Arecibo observatory means for science.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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Nature Podcast |
How welcome are refugees in Europe? A giant study has some answers
A survey of 33,000 Europeans suggests overall support towards refugees has slightly increased, and how to get shapes to roll down wiggly paths using mathematics.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Shamini Bundell
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Correspondence |
Pangenomics: prioritize diversity in collaborations
- Mildred K. Cho
- , Stephanie Malia Fullerton
- & Jenny Reardon
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Career Feature |
Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change
Global-south researchers want equal partnerships that value intellectual exchange.
- Virginia Gewin
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News |
Mind-reading machines are coming — how can we keep them in check?
Devices that can record and change brain activity will create privacy issues that challenge existing human-rights legislation, say researchers.
- Liam Drew
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Career Column |
Computer algorithms infer gender, race and ethnicity. Here’s how to avoid their pitfalls
Demographic-prediction algorithms have various challenges, following best practices can minimize the harms.
- Jeffrey W. Lockhart
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- & Christin L. Munsch
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Nature Index |
Preprints become papers less often when the authors are from lower-income countries
A lack of financial resources is likely to be one of the key factors preventing the transition.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Editorial |
Stop talking about tomorrow’s AI doomsday when AI poses risks today
Talk of artificial intelligence destroying humanity plays into the tech companies’ agenda, and hinders effective regulation of the societal harms AI is causing right now.
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Editorial |
More carrot, less stick: how to make research assessments fairer
Research-assessment exercises are often misused to judge researchers or cut their funding — changes to the United Kingdom’s scheme are a promising start.
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Correspondence |
Field studies: list local contributors as authors
- Tom Mulder
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- & Daniel Hending
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Book Review |
Is ‘speciesism’ as bad as racism or sexism?
We are all complicit in a global farming industry that puts profit before animal welfare — but establishing what moral principles we should be applying isn’t easy, an update of a classic book shows.
- Jonathan Birch
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News |
‘Bold’ study that gave people COVID reveals ‘supershedder’ phenomenon
A small subset of infected people spew huge amounts of virus into the air — despite having only mild symptoms.
- Saima Sidik
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World View |
Tackling pervasive sexism in Australian science requires money, leadership and time
Lessons in advancing gender equity in research from my time in the United States at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and in Australia.
- Robin Bell
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Arts Review |
Surgical wonders and dodgy medical ethics: the Hunterian Museum reopens
The London museum is a treasure chest of medical specimens both fascinating and ghoulish — now with a renewed focus on questions about how its collections came to be.
- Nisha Gaind
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News |
Turkey’s researchers fear loss of freedom after Erdoğan re-elected
Researchers expect the administration to further restrict autonomy and free speech. Some say they will move away or retire.
- Miryam Naddaf
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Book Review |
Is the biggest challenge to scientific thinking science itself?
Data torturing, cherry-picking, P-hacking and the invention of tools such as ChatGPT — when it comes to assisting the spread of disinformation science is its own worst enemy, argues a new book.
- Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
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Book Review |
Ethics in outer space: can we make interplanetary exploration just?
The prospect of settling the Moon, Mars and elsewhere requires urgent conversations about issues such as labour and reproductive rights far from Earth.
- Alexandra Witze
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Nature Index |
Researchers who agree to manipulate citations are more likely to get their papers published
Data suggest that these researchers are more willing to publish in journals that participate in such coercion.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Article
| Open AccessCOVID-19 amplified racial disparities in the US criminal legal system
A study shows that, although the number of incarcerated people in the USA decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino individuals increased.
- Brennan Klein
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World View |
Why open-source generative AI models are an ethical way forward for science
Researchers should avoid the lure of proprietary models and develop transparent large language models to ensure reproducibility.
- Arthur Spirling
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World View |
University ethics boards are not ready for Indigenous scholars
Ethics review processes routinely impede Indigenous academics’ research with Indigenous communities.
- Jennifer Grenz
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News |
Researchers back African Union to join G20 group of largest economic powers
Including African Union in the G20 is a matter of ethics and fairness, researchers say.
- T.V. Padma
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News |
Stem-cell-derived ‘embryos’ implanted in monkeys
An embryo-like ball of cells offers a way to study pregnancy and its complications without the typical ethical dilemmas.
- Gemma Conroy
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News Feature |
Diversity in German science: researchers push for missing ethnicity data
The European country is one of several reassessing its cultural unease with collecting information on scientists’ race and ethnicity.
- Hristio Boytchev
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World View |
Chatbots shouldn’t use emojis
Artificial intelligence that can manipulate our emotions is a scandal waiting to happen.
- Carissa Véliz
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News |
Why CRISPR babies are still too risky — embryo studies highlight challenges
While society grapples with the social and ethical implications of heritable genome editing, technical obstacles still abound.
- Heidi Ledford
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News |
Beyond CRISPR babies: how human genome editing is moving on after scandal
Researchers will discuss advances in genome-editing technologies — and the ethics of deploying them — at a major international summit.
- Heidi Ledford
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Correspondence |
Refine retraction notices to avoid damaging fallout
- Shaoxiong Brian Xu
- & Guangwei Hu
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Editorial |
Our efforts to diversify Nature’s journalism are progressing, but work remains
Two years ago, this journal pledged to report on the diversity of sources in our journalistic content. The first results are now in.
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Disgraced CRISPR-baby scientist’s ‘publicity stunt’ frustrates researchers
He Jiankui refused to answer researchers’ questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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Editorial |
Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use
As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.
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ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
At least four articles credit the AI tool as a co-author, as publishers scramble to regulate its use.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
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News |
Young physicists say ethics rules are being ignored
Follow-up APS survey finds an increase in awareness of ethics guidelines — but not in compliance.
- Miryam Naddaf
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News Feature |
How India’s caste system limits diversity in science — in six charts
Data show how privileged groups still dominate many of the country’s elite research institutes.
- Ankur Paliwal
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News Feature |
How UK science is failing Black researchers — in nine stark charts
Data show that the representation of scientists from marginalized ethnicities dwindles at each stage of UK academia.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Correspondence |
Universities: cut research links with fossil-fuel companies
- Yannai Kashtan
- , Jayson Toweh
- & Thomas J. P. Hersbach
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Outlook |
Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure
When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.
- Liam Drew
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News Feature |
Will pigs solve the organ crisis? The future of animal-to-human transplants
This year, surgeons transplanted the first pig organs into human recipients. Researchers are keen to launch more human trials.
- Sara Reardon
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Career Q&A |
How a passion for research could hinder your career and exacerbate inequities in science
Engineer-turned-sociologist Erin Cech describes how she coined the term ‘passion principle’, which challenges the belief that people should love their jobs.
- Jacqui Thornton
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Correspondence |
Probe how race and gender intersect in author attribution
- Irini Sereti
- , Tomi Akinyemiju
- & Sara Gianella