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AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers
Researchers call for more funding to study the boundary between conscious and unconscious systems.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Spotlight |
Politics and the environment collide in Brazil: Lula’s first year back in office
Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva grapples with deforestation, fossil-fuel pledges and commitments to Indigenous communities — all while having to work with a conservative Congress.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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Spotlight |
Why 2023 was a bittersweet year for Brazilian science
Expectations were high after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidency. But some scientists are frustrated at the slow pace of change.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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Nature Podcast |
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2023
Games, seasonal science songs, and Nature’s 10.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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Comment |
To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth
The year 2024 must be a turning point for shifting policies away from gross domestic product and towards sustainable well-being. Here’s why and how.
- Robert Costanza
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Research Briefing |
Online search results can increase belief in misinformation
To counter misinformation, people are often advised to check the truth of claims by searching online. Five experiments show that this can actually increase people’s belief that false or misleading articles are true, an effect that might be driven by low-quality search results.
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Article
| Open AccessOnline searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity
Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.
- Kevin Aslett
- , Zeve Sanderson
- & Joshua A. Tucker
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News & Views |
From the archive: scientific spelling, and ancient Egyptian art
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Correspondence |
Is Brazil ready for gender equality in science?
- Fernanda Staniscuaski
- , Leticia de Oliveira
- & Charikleia Tzanakou
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Correspondence |
Short-sighted policies are fuelling Brazilian deforestation
- Richard Fuchs
- , Joanna Raymond
- & Mark Rounsevell
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Correspondence |
Should scientists delegate their writing to ChatGPT?
- Christopher Basgier
- & Shyam Sharma
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Career Column |
How Dark Souls and Darth Revan helped me to make sense of my professorship
John Tregoning compares academia to role-playing video games as a way to discuss how the choices we make can affect the paths we take.
- John Tregoning
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Book Review |
Prebunking propaganda, and how to live well: 2023’s best of Books in brief
Connoisseur Andrew Robinson gives ten of his favourite tomes from the year a more expansive review.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Feature |
The scientific workplace in 2023
India’s first Moon landing and a welcome return to Horizon Europe for UK researchers loomed large in an eventful year for working scientists around the world.
- Chris Woolston
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Article
| Open AccessUnequal climate impacts on global values of natural capital
Country-level changes in economic production and the value of non-market ecosystem benefits show unequal impacts on the global values of natural capital resulting from climate-change-induced shifts in terrestrial vegetation cover.
- B. A. Bastien-Olvera
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- & F. C. Moore
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Book Review |
How to parent AI, and climate change vs democracy: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Podcast |
Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
The astronomer joins us to talk about her memoir Life on Other Planets.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Career Feature |
How to land a scientific position even in a struggling economy
It’s tough out there, but career experts discuss how applicants can stand out from the crowd.
- Rachel Crowell
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News Q&A |
Why hidden xenophobia is surging into the open
Sociologist Mathew Creighton discusses how events in Europe in the past month are fed by people’s covert prejudices.
- Emma Marris
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Outlook |
Water and warfare: the battle to control a precious resource
Climate change could intensify the role of this vital and strategic asset in armed conflict.
- Elie Dolgin
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News |
RNA biologist loses disability case against Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Vivian Cheung sued after her funding was not renewed, alleging discrimination, but the institute said her science no longer met its expectations.
- Amanda Heidt
- & Max Kozlov
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Spotlight |
India’s year in science
The country has made history in many ways in 2023, but is it using science and technology enough to help its economic and social development?
- Jack Leeming
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Nature Index |
Four global-south researchers making cross-border collaborations count
Researchers in the developing world navigate many roadblocks when partnering with the global north, but the benefits can be wide-reaching.
- Virginia Gewin
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Analysis
| Open AccessA synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19
Evaluation of evidence generated to test 19 proposed policy recommendations and guidance for the future.
- Kai Ruggeri
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Spotlight |
Where science meets Indian economics: in five charts
Nature explores how better investment in science might help India’s economic development.
- Andy Tay
- & Jack Leeming
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Spotlight |
Renewable energy for the subcontinent
India has invested heavily in wind, solar and storage technology to hit net zero by 2070, but some don’t think it’s doing enough.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Spotlight |
Big ideas: India’s drive to stem the brain drain
The Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship is among a number of schemes set up to attract talented scientists back to India. Diaspora and returning researchers share their career decisions.
- Virginia Gewin
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Nature Careers Podcast |
The Chandrayaan lunar landing and how it could impact India’s brain drain
Astrophysicist and university vice-chancellor Somak Raychaudhury outlines the significance of the country’s space programme.
- Jack Leeming
- & Julie Gould
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Spotlight |
We need to talk about water
Water needs to be central to India’s efforts to tackle floods, pollution and urbanization.
- Gautam I. Menon
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News |
COP28 climate summit signals the end of fossil fuels — but is it enough?
As nations make historic pledge to ‘transition’ energy systems away from fossil fuels — some scientists are disappointed by the softened wording.
- Katharine Sanderson
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News Feature |
How Earth’s first global heat officer is tackling climate change
Eleni Myrivili is helping the world to prepare for the threats of climate change as the United Nations chief heat officer.
- Alexandra Witze
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News Feature |
Research in Chornobyl zone restarts amid ravages of war
The area surrounding the nuclear reactor was a science hotspot — until it was on the front line of the Ukraine war.
- Matthew Ponsford
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News & Views |
From the archive: London fog, and an expedition team to envy
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Correspondence |
Can AI deliver advice that is judgement-free for science policy?
- Stefano Canali
- & Francesco Barone-Adesi
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Book Review |
What the Ottomans did for science — and science did for the Ottomans
A hundred years after the birth of modern Turkey, a monumental research project is uncovering the untold story of science and technology during six centuries of the Ottoman Empire.
- Ehsan Masood
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Book Review |
Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals?
To understand the true otherness of Neanderthals, researchers must rethink the meaning they give to their archaeological finds, argues a new book.
- Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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News |
Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists
Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.
- Gemma Conroy
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News |
The best science images of 2023 — Nature’s picks
Cosmic dust, microscopic syrup, a flying gecko and more.
- Emma Stoye
- , Nisha Gaind
- & Carissa Wong
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Nature Podcast |
The low carbon cost of alleviating poverty
New modeling study suggests that reducing global poverty does not have to derail decarbonization efforts
- Alex Lathbridge
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Career Feature |
My brief appearance in Downton Abbey: Nature readers share stories of side gigs
From rugby refereeing to film and television work, a poll reveals scientists’ first jobs and what they learnt from them.
- Jop de Vrieze