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Threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control. The four horsemen of the reproducibility apocalypse being: publication bias, low statistical power, P-value hacking and HARKing (hypothesizing after results are known).
Networking is a crucial skill for all scientists. Ruth Gotian offers tips for those who struggle to make it work.
Survey of undergraduate women finds that most experienced some type of unwanted sexual attention during their physics studies. "A lot of times, people study how women can change to better fit in a field or be more successful. Perhaps physics needs to think about changing itself.”
Thousands of Nature referees have chosen to be publicly acknowledged.
Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.
Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents - despite efforts to dampen its influence.
Community-developed standards, such as those for the identification, citation and reporting of data, underpin reproducible and reusable research, aid scholarly publishing, and drive both the discovery and the evolution of scientific practice.
Atmospheric scientist Angie Pendergrass spoke to Nature about a newly-published guide to broadening participation in conferences.
Why Germany is becoming a career destination for many researchers.
Hard-drive failures are inevitable, but data loss doesn't have to be.
Academics and editors need to stop pretending that software always catches recycled text and start reading more carefully, says Debora Weber-Wulff.
US law requires researchers to post study findings on a public registry within a year of completion - or face heavy fines.
Hundreds of thousands of people protested in London to push for a say on the terms of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.
Looking beyond a much used and abused measure would make science harder, but better.
Robert P. Crease harks back to the shapers of our scientific infrastructure and what they can tell us about how to handle the threat we now face.
Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg and specialists from seven countries call for an international governance framework on genome editing.
The government will assess whether a UK granting scheme could help make up for lost EU research funding.
Nature welcomes a registry that supports experiments to improve refereeing.
ReimagineReview records trials that are probing the pros and cons of different approaches to review.
The proportion of open-access publications with authors from the pharmaceutical industry doubled between 2009 and 2016.
University of California and Dutch publisher fail to strike deal that would allow researchers to publish under open-access terms.
As departure day approaches, chief of top UK lab says he fears science will drop off the government's agenda.
Six male researchers describe their efforts to support their female colleagues.
The hunt for male and female distinctions inside the skull is a lesson in bad research practice.
To be successful as researchers, we must be able to think through the impacts of our work on society and speak up when necessary.
Publishers say that the bold open-access initiative rules out proven ways of opening up the literature.
eLife's departing editor talks about the seismic changes he sees coming - and why some journals will lose out.
