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What makes a climate story effective? Narrating intentional, rather than unintentional, pro-environmental action can enhance readers' climate policy support and intentions to perform pro-environmental action.
Yuning Wang learned to rely less on her supervisor's guidance during her doctoral programme, an important step on the road to research autonomy.
Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding.
How can we make sure that medical trials reported in the scientific literature are real? It is surprisingly hard - but not impossible.
COP26 energized the global effort to halt global warming. Research is now crucial to monitoring progress and creating solutions.
Theranos case highlights the importance of peer review for biotech entrepreneurs, scientists say.
Africa urgently needs to guarantee its own health security.
A look back at 2021 through the Sustainable Development Goals.
The extraordinary vaccination of more than four billion people, and the lack of access for many others, were major forces this year - while Omicron's arrival complicated things further.
Experience in grant-writing, data analysis and presentation will serve researchers well - even when they move away from academia.
Research has stalled, funds have evaporated and many scientists are still struggling to get out.
To speed research, express conclusions as testable statements, and incorporate testing into training.
A high-profile replication study in cancer biology has obtained disappointing results. Scientists must redouble their efforts to find out why.
From Omicron to a Mars helicopter to an Alzheimer's firestorm, our news editors choose the defining moments in science and research this year.
Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India's copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield.
The decision to appoint a board of advisors is welcome - and urgent, given the twin challenges of COVID and climate change.
Lack of rigour is often blamed on pressure to publish. But ethnographers can find out what truly keeps science from upping its game.
State your main finding in your title, and don't forget to use the word 'but', says Bruce Kirchoff.
COVID researchers are working at breakneck speed to learn about the variant's transmissibility, severity and ability to evade vaccines.
The data are growing that booster jabs enhance protection - but their durability, impact and ability to quash the new variant are unknown.
Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.
Anthony Fauci on four decades of progress against HIV, and what's needed for the future.
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world.
