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Seven researchers discuss the challenges posed by science's embrace of one global language.

Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi.

Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got the most votes.

Funders behind the policy revise rules after major consultation.

Atomic Age would mark the start of the current geologic time unit, if proposal receives final approval.

The region already hosts some of the world's leading scientific countries, and some of its smaller states are quickly catching up.

Language, cultural differences and expense are common downsides in some European countries, but researchers who land in Europe love the opportunities to learn new techniques, work in a diverse setting and polish their confidence.

Proactive, cosmopolitan and open, the European Union is filling a leadership void on the global stage.

The European Union's cross-border collaborative programmes offer lessons for the rest of the world.

The first international meeting on postgraduate mental health was an important step, but much more is needed to solve academia's crisis.

On the eve of the European Union's parliamentary elections, a special issue examines the prospects for science across the region.

Support from mainstream diversity initiatives would create a virtuous circle of visibility and benefit science for all, urges Jon Freeman.

The country's major funding agency says the tool reduces the time it takes to find referees.

Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.

Open science can lead to greater collaboration, increased confidence in findings and goodwill between researchers.

Expert advice on how to prepare a perfect funding application

Countries in southeast Asia, Africa and South America lead the way on free-to-read literature.

Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules.

IndiaRxiv is the latest of several preprint servers set up to host research from a particular region.

Grant reviewers favour 'broad' words used more often by men, but proposals using those terms don't produce better research.

The Belt and Road Initiative, China's mega-plan for global infrastructure, will transform the lives and work of tens of thousands of researchers.

The National Academy of Sciences has come under pressure to address misconduct in recent years.

Agreement with Norwegian consortium allows researchers to make the vast majority of their work free to read on publication in Elsevier journals.

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).

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.”

Networking is a crucial skill for all scientists. Ruth Gotian offers tips for those who struggle to make it work.

Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.

Thousands of Nature referees have chosen to be publicly acknowledged.

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.