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Six early-career researchers offer advice on how to secure a permanent contract in academia, and then make the most of it.

Scientists receive too little peer-review training. Here's one method for effectively peer-reviewing papers, says Mathew Stiller-Reeve.

Drug companies make big contributions to analysis in the trials they fund but can fail to report their contributions.

Advocates of homeopathy say that the rat study is evidence of the practice’s efficacy, but some scientists have cast doubt on the paper.

To assess whether research is relevant to society, ask the stakeholders, say Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Beth Perry.

Robert-Jan Smits takes Plan S to the White House and says he is in the United States for ‘business not chit-chat’.

A better-tasting tomato highlights problems with Europe’s outdated approach to gene editing.

Seven researchers and campaigners tell Nature how Britain’s break-up with the EU is affecting research.

The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough.

We suggest that moving from an authorship to a contributorship model would better reflect the many and varied contributions to large, complex, long-term and management-intensive projects in modern science.

Nation’s funder is the first to join Plan S - which aims to make all scientific works free to read on publication - since the effort was announced.

How to step out from the shadow of your principal investigator.

Postdoctoral researchers have to reapply for a work permit annually, and don't always qualify for permanent residency.

If we really want transdisciplinary research, we must ditch the ordered listing of authors that stalls collaborative science.

Marine biologists are using artificial intelligence to help them identify objects in millions of images.

Respect for what you and your colleagues bring to the table is vital to successful integration.

US agency plans to create a central reporting system and launch training and education campaigns.

The National Science Foundation's rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.

Even sophisticated, data-driven models of academic careers have trouble forecasting the highs and lows.

Collaboration across institutes can train students in open, team science, which better prepares them for challenges to come.

Governing board of the evidence-based medicine group may now be dissolved entirely.

Six researchers offer tips for navigating through and beyond gender barriers.

In academia's great migration, some researchers are at a disadvantage.

An algebra pioneer who faced discrimination deserves wider recognition on the centenary of her namesake theorem.

As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.

To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years.

'Most highly cited' criterion is not the most appropriate.