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Research facilities and medicine were among the winners for science in Australia's 2018/19 national budget. The government will push to invest almost Aus$1.9 billion (US$1.4 billion) over the next 12 years in shared research infrastructure. Scientists welcome relative windfall after years of stagnating funds.
Scientific integrity needs to apply to how researchers treat people, not just to how they handle data.
International research collaborations could end in wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision.
Twenty years on, Dave Reay speaks out about the depression that almost sunk his Ph.D., and the lifelines that saved him.
Funders should assign research grants via a lottery system to reduce human bias, says Dorothy Bishop.
The Wellcome Trust vows to pull grants if researchers or institutions do not abide by its new misconduct policy.
Virtual- and augmented-reality tools allow researchers to view and share data as never before. But so far, they remain largely the tools of early adopters.
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
Magdalena Skipper, who is currently editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Nature Communications, will become the eighth editor of Nature. She will take over from Philip Campbell, who will move to the newly created post of editor in chief at publisher Springer Nature on 1 July.
Making data available to the larger scientific community has many benefits.
Five researchers share their stories and advice on how to maintain good mental health in the hyper-competitive environment of science.
The isolated nation publishes fewer than 100 scholarly articles a year - but as political tensions thaw, researchers hope for greater collaboration.
Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists - but for how long?
Artificial intelligence could speed up metagenomic studies that look for species unknown to science.
A new paper suggests that positive feedback in funding may be a key mechanism through which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few extremely successful scholars, but also that the origins of emergent distinction in scientists' careers may be of an arbitrary nature.
By making science readily available to any viewer, researchers can reach people who are interested in science but can’t read original manuscripts in a journal for whatever reason. If you don’t believe me, just ask my mum.
In an uncertain world, more governments are asking universities to help develop weapons. That’s a threat to the culture and conscience of researchers.
China’s much-anticipated brain initiative finally starts to take shape.
The latest drafts of the copyright regulations in the EU have triggered a wave of criticism from open-science advocates saying that the proposals will stifle research and scholarly communication.
Most lab mice are kept in pristine conditions, but a few immunologists think a dose of dirt could make them a better model of human disease.
An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.
Nature peers into the evidence for ‘psychographic targeting’.
A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.
