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Career Column |
Bullied in science: I quit my job and launched an advocacy non-profit
Ahead of the Academic Parity Movement’s annual conference, co-founder Morteza Mahmoudi describes how it supports whistle-blowers.
- Morteza Mahmoudi
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News |
How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society
OpenAI’s debut of its impressive Sora text-to-video tool has raised important questions.
- Jonathan O'Callaghan
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Nature Careers Podcast |
‘There is no cookie cutter female scientist’
Teach, move to industry, be a manager. Success in science takes many forms beyond academia, says Monica Stein, marking International Women’s Day.
- Julie Gould
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World View |
Academic workplaces are still failing Black women; they must do better
Black women at universities are seldom heard. Institutions need to listen and take action.
- Nicola Rollock
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Career Column |
How sacked whistle-blower Susanne Täuber’s career fared after she spoke out
Denied promotion, Täuber describes what happened to her after she publicly challenged her university’s gender-equity policy.
- Susanne Täuber
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Editorial |
Why scientists trust AI too much — and what to do about it
Some researchers see superhuman qualities in artificial intelligence. All scientists need to be alert to the risks this creates.
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Correspondence |
Space and nuclear pioneers show the value of empowering women in STEM
- Farhan M. Asrar
- , Safa Siddiqui
- & Soyeon Yi
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News Feature |
What science says about hybrid working — and how to make it a success
How researchers can maximize creativity and connection in the ‘new normal’.
- David Adam
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Career Feature |
Adding scientific signs to Indian Sign Language will create a more inclusive field for deaf students
Digvijay Singh, a deaf sign-language educator, works with biology researchers and sign-language specialists to add to the scientific lexicon for deaf students in India.
- Deepa Padmanaban
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World View |
‘Education is possible in any situation’ — what I’ve learnt from teaching in Kyiv amid a war
Ukraine’s universities have adapted by blending innovative forms of remote learning. Lessons from this experiment are relevant to the rest of the world.
- Inna Makhovych
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News |
Earthquakes are most deadly in these unexpected countries
Haiti and Turkmenistan are among the nations with the highest earthquake fatality load, a measure of the burden imposed by quake-related deaths.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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Career Feature |
What’s the sign for ‘centrifuge’? How we added scientific terms to Indian Sign Language
Molecular biologist Alka Rao brought together her research group and sign-language specialists to broaden access to science for deaf students in India.
- Deepa Padmanaban
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Book Review |
How our love of pets grew from a clash of world views
Indigenous Americans’ relationships with and knowledge of animals have influenced how Europeans have thought about animals since 1492.
- Surekha Davies
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News Feature |
Scientists under arrest: the researchers taking action over climate change
Fed up with a lack of political progress in solving the climate problem, some researchers are becoming activists to slow global warming.
- Daniel Grossman
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News |
Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.
- Carissa Wong
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Career News |
Postdocs celebrate 24% pay boost in one of the world’s most expensive cities
Starting salaries at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine rise to $72,500 as part of a deal led by unionized researchers.
- Laurie Udesky
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Correspondence |
Best practice for LGBTQ+ data collection by STEM organizations
- Alexander L. Bond
- & Tyler L. Kelly
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Editorial |
Open science — embrace it before it’s too late
A UNESCO report laments the lack of progress in making science more collaborative. Greater awareness could aid efforts to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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World View |
Why the mental cost of a STEM career can be too high for women and people of colour
Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creating psychological — and physical — effects. The scientific community must ease this burden.
- Jean King
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Comment |
No ‘easy’ weight loss: don’t overlook the social cost of anti-obesity drugs
Ideas of diet and exercise as the ‘best’ way to lose weight could stigmatize people taking Ozempic, WeGovy and other blockbuster drugs that affect appetite. Lessons from weight-loss surgery reveal ways to help.
- Alexandra Brewis
- & Sarah Trainer
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Career News |
Economists count the cost of ‘risky’ science
A survey seeks to define risk in research and how academics approach it in their work.
- Chris Woolston
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Correspondence |
Tech developers must respect equitable AI access
- Michał Choraś
- , Marek Pawlicki
- & Aleksandra Pawlicka
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World View |
Coping with climate change could be a matter of what building you’re in
Extreme heat and cold brought on by climate change put people at risk. Beefing up building codes now could help to save lives.
- Meredydd Evans
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Career Feature |
A crime-busting path to planetary science
Andrew Lincowski was a police officer before undertaking a PhD in astronomy and astrobiology. For a while, his career spanned both roles, before he moved into teaching.
- Anne Gulland
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News |
Piracy at sea is waning — but hotspots remain
A greater understanding of pirate attacks can help to inform the development of countermeasures.
- Freda Kreier
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World View |
Stop sending human remains to the Moon
The Peregrine lander was due to deposit several people’s ashes on the Moon. The Navajo Nation is calling for broader discussion.
- Alvin D. Harvey
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News |
Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses
Researchers say their artificial-intelligence system could help to democratize medicine.
- Mariana Lenharo
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News & Views |
Urban youth most isolated in largest cities
GPS data reveal that young people encounter fewer individuals from diverse groups than do adults. The isolation of young people is exacerbated in larger cities, and for those living in poverty.
- Victor Couture
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Editorial |
There are holes in Europe’s AI Act — and researchers can help to fill them
Scientists have been promised a front-row seat for the formulation of the EU’s proposed AI regulatory structures. They should seize this opportunity to bridge some big gaps.
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Editorial |
How online misinformation exploits ‘information voids’ — and what to do about it
In 2024’s super election year, providers of online search engines and their users need to be especially aware of how online misinformation can seem all too credible.
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Career Feature |
In Brazil, one in two female researchers has faced sexual harassment
A survey by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences bolsters calls to tackle the problem.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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Book Review |
How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives
A broad-ranging analysis asks whether we can achieve a kind of immortality by documenting our lives and deaths online.
- Margaret Gibson
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Career Feature |
How sharing your science in an opinion piece can boost your career
Don’t rely solely on academic papers to raise your professional profile. General readers are interested in your opinions, too.
- Jane Palmer
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News |
Will superintelligent AI sneak up on us? New study offers reassurance
Improvements in the performance of large language models such as ChatGPT are more predictable than they seem.
- Matthew Hutson
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News |
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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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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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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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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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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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
- , Friederike Stock
- & Robb Willer
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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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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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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
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Nature Podcast |
Sanitary products made from plants could help tackle period poverty
Researchers have extracted absorbent materials from the succulent Agave sisalana for making local, low-cost period products.
- Julie Gould
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Research Briefing |
The myth of cosmopolitan cities: why large urban areas are more segregated
There is a long-standing assumption that large, densely populated cities inherently foster interactions between a diverse range of people. Analysis of 1.6 billion person-to-person encounters in the United States reveals that big cities are actually pockets of extreme segregation, highlighting a need for strategic urban design that fosters more integrated environments.
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Article
| Open AccessHuman mobility networks reveal increased segregation in large cities
There is extreme socioeconomic segregation in large US cities, arising from a greater choice of differentiated spaces targeted to specific socioeconomic groups, which can be countered by positioning city hubs (such as shopping centres) to bridge diverse neighbourhoods.
- Hamed Nilforoshan
- , Wenli Looi
- & Jure Leskovec
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Comment |
How effective are climate protests at swaying policy — and what could make a difference?
Why people take to the streets to march against global heating is relatively well documented. But it’s unclear why certain tactics work better than others in reaching the public and policymakers.
- Dana R. Fisher
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- & Colin J. Davis
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Correspondence |
China: personalized carbon accounting for consumers
- Li Zhang
- , Lan Tao
- & Fangyi Yang