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Nature Index |
Bridging the rural–urban health-care divide through community research partnerships
Scientists are working with Indigenous communities in Alaska to improve many facets of rural health.
- Lucas Trout
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Nature Index |
Are rooftop solar panels the answer to meeting China’s challenging climate targets?
Research is central to the success of major photovoltaic programmes in ramping up clean energy and alleviating rural poverty.
- Yvaine Ye
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Book Review |
Migration isn’t increasing, border restrictions don’t reduce crossings — and other home truths
Prejudice, rather than facts, colours our views about human mobility, argues a new book. But the global shock of the COVID-19 pandemic means that the world is changing in front of our eyes.
- Alan Gamlen
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Career Q&A |
As an artist-scientist, ‘I’m obsessed with pigments’
Biochemist Sierra Weir explores local ecosystems around Pittsburgh for art and inspiration.
- Robin Donovan
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Editorial |
Why teachers should explore ChatGPT’s potential — despite the risks
Many students now use AI chatbots to help with their assignments. Educators need to study how to include these tools in teaching and learning — and minimize pitfalls.
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Comment |
Disaster early-warning systems can succeed — but collective action is needed
From floods to wildfires, and tsunamis to volcanic eruptions, early-warning systems can stop natural hazards becoming human disasters. But more joined-up thinking is urgently needed.
- Andrew C. Tupper
- & Carina J. Fearnley
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Nature Careers Podcast |
The unexpected outcomes of artist-scientist collaborations
Artists love working with scientists, and when they do it can unlock new perspectives for research.
- Julie Gould
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World View |
The new Twitter is changing rapidly — study it before it’s too late
Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention.
- Mike Caulfield
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Research Briefing |
Personal motivations polarize people’s memories of the COVID-19 pandemic
How accurately a person recalls the COVID-19 pandemic is affected by motivational factors, including how they feel about their vaccination status. The recollections of vaccinated and unvaccinated people are skewed in opposite directions, leading to different retrospective narratives about the pandemic. This distorted recall influences how individuals evaluate past political action, and will complicate preparation for future crises.
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Editorial |
Why the UK-led global AI summit is missing the point
Robust regulation of AI technologies will be crucial to protecting against harms. Researchers’ voices must be heard.
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World View |
Sudan’s disastrous war — and the science it is imperilling
Ongoing conflict has displaced students and destroyed institutions that were once among Africa’s best. Small projects show how a brighter future can be built
- Mohamed H. A. Hassan
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Outlook |
How robots can learn to follow a moral code
Ethical artificial intelligence aims to impart human values on machine-learning systems.
- Neil Savage
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News |
Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs
Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance.
- Saima Sidik
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Nature Index |
Achieving UN climate goals needs purposeful, persistent action from science
To contribute fully to the Sustainable Development Goals, global research must change gear.
- James Mitchell Crow
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News |
‘Abortion tests’ developed in Poland spark concern
Scientists are questioning the reliability and ethics of tests to detect abortion drugs in biological samples.
- Layal Liverpool
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Comment |
‘I wrote my first piece of code at seven’: women share highs and lows in computer science for Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology reflect on their experiences in the field.
- Janet Abbate
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- & Verena Rieser
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News |
Extreme heat harms health — what is the human body’s limit?
As deadly heatwaves become more common, researchers are studying what people can tolerate.
- Carissa Wong
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News |
Gene therapies for rare diseases are under threat. Scientists hope to save them
As industry steps aside, scientists seek innovative ways to make sure expensive treatments can reach people who need them.
- Heidi Ledford
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News Q&A |
‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine
Neuroscientist Sergiy Sylantyev tells Nature that science and war cannot be separated.
- Layal Liverpool
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Editorial |
The disinformation sleuths: a key role for scientists in impending elections
Researchers in Europe have a golden opportunity to help defend democratic principles and bring science to bear against online disinformation.
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Career Feature |
Engaged in collaborative research? Try a touch of intellectual humility
Being open to the limitations of their knowledge can help researchers to foster interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations.
- Jane Palmer
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Career Feature |
Tracking women’s mental health amid trauma in Yemen
Psychologist Anjila Sultan returned to the city where she grew up, after witnessing the effects of war and cultural pressures on mothers and children.
- Shihab Jamal
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Career Feature |
Universities axe diversity statements in wake of US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
Higher-education campaigners fear that removing the option for job applicants to provide the statements will make the academic workforce less diverse.
- Amanda Heidt
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World View |
How tackling real-world problems transformed my teaching and research
Designing courses on the basis of what really matters to people is a win–win for students and society.
- Franco Montalto
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Editorial |
Shock delay to net-zero pledges turns UK from climate leader to laggard
It could have shown vision and leadership. Instead, the country that proudly hosted the 2021 COP26 climate summit is ignoring the advice of its own researchers.
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Book Review |
Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’
The physician-researcher who spoke out against misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against science are formidable — and getting worse.
- Julian Nowogrodzki
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Innovations In |
For Health Equity, Location Matters
A special package explores problems and solutions to the geography of injustice.
- Lauren Gravitz
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Innovations In |
People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community at a Time
These four researchers are highlighting environmental inequities and improving the health of their communities.
- Katherine Bourzac
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Innovations In |
Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban ‘Heat Islands’
People of color, more than other groups, live in neighborhoods prone to excess heat and the illnesses that go with it.
- Melba Newsome
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Innovations In |
The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity
Robert Bullard reflects on the movement he created.
- Yessenia Funes
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Innovations In |
Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers
The disease hits farmworkers and outdoor laborers disproportionately hard.
- Ashli Blow
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Innovations In |
Fixing Air Pollution Could Dramatically Improve Health Disparities
The most marginalized people are breathing the most polluted air, and improving it could improve health equity worldwide.
- Jyoti Madhusoodanan
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Innovations In |
More People Die From Venomous Snakebites Each Year Than Have Ever Died from Ebola
In low- and middle-income nations, snakebite envenoming is more deadly than almost any other neglected tropical disease.
- Cassandra Willyard
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Outlook |
A test of artificial intelligence
As debate rages over the abilities of modern AI systems, scientists are still struggling to effectively assess machine intelligence.
- Michael Eisenstein
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News Q&A |
UFO sightings: how NASA can bring science to the debate
An astrophysicist who advised the agency talks to Nature about ways to bring rigour to reports of ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’.
- Alexandra Witze
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Comment |
What scientists need to do to accelerate progress on the SDGs
Drilling down into why the UN Sustainable Development Goals are so hard to achieve, and showing policymakers pathways to follow, will help the planet and save lives.
- Shirin Malekpour
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Where I Work |
Protecting peccaries, preserving a people’s knowledge
While working to safeguard habitat for pig-like animals in Argentina, Micaela Camino relies on the region’s Indigenous communities.
- Patricia Maia Noronha
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Career Column |
Why Juneteenth matters for science
In the light of US court rulings on racism in science and affirmative action in higher education, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans is ever more important.
- Antentor O. Hinton
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News |
Legacy of racist US housing policies extends even to bird data
A discriminatory strategy called redlining, which was implemented in the 1930s, has repercussions today for records of urban biodiversity.
- Anil Oza
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Book Review |
Dust: how the pursuit of power and profit has turned the world to powder
From atmospheric nuclear testing to the US Dust Bowl, human activities have left a toxic legacy of particulate pollution — and the unseen fallout continues to this day.
- Alexandra Witze
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Career Q&A |
Biotechnologist’s long-life bananas unite business and social solutions
George William Byarugaba Bazirake brings academic values to his company.
- Christopher Bendana
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Research Briefing |
Monitoring an active war zone in Ukraine using seismic data
Seismic data have been used to continuously identify individual military explosions in Ukraine. Such conflict monitoring provides unprecedented details of these attacks and an objective data source that is essential for accurate war reporting and for identifying potential breaches of international law.
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News |
University mourns nanoscientist killed on UNC campus
Zijie Yan led a laboratory at the University of North Carolina that studied light–matter interactions on the nanometre scale.
- Mariana Lenharo
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News |
If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories of consciousness could aid in the assessment.
- Mariana Lenharo
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News |
These veteran female activists are fighting a pivotal climate case with science
Research on the effects of climate change on health will be key in high-profile lawsuits being heard by Europe’s human-rights court.
- Layal Liverpool
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Correspondence |
Digital tech: some way to go for IPCC-style governance
- Sean T. Norton
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Editorial |
Reducing inequality benefits everyone — so why isn’t it happening?
Those urging world leaders to take action on inequality should study why earlier efforts did not translate to changes in policy.
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Career Column |
Why two scientist-mums made a database of parental-leave policies
By scouring websites and pestering university human-resources departments, Amanda Gorton and Tess Grainger are tracking the vast differences in leave entitlements across North America.
- Amanda J. Gorton
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News |
How Ukraine’s crisis tested European attitudes towards refugees
Despite what politicians say, Europeans have become more welcoming to people fleeing humanitarian crises.
- Lilly Tozer