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Researcher who spent months chasing permission to republish online data sets urges others to read up on the law.
With the publication of the Concordat on Open Research Data last week, the UK further cemented its leadership position in promoting access to tax payer-funded research data.
Beate El-Chichakli and colleagues outline principles for coordinating bio-based industries to achieve many of the sustainable development goals.
Multimillion dollar initiative prioritizes drug development over discovery of new molecules.
The European Research Council has begun to evaluate the impact of its grants; others should do the same.
How to manage the research-paper deluge? Blogs, colleagues and social media can all help.
Chemist Claudio Bifano tells Nature about daily life in a country gripped by hunger, scarcity and violence.
Political turmoil spreads to education sector.
Tech giants moving into health may widen inequalities and harm research, unless people can access and share their data, warn John T. Wilbanks and Eric J.
The story of CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing has tended to focus on a few key players.
Crowdsourcing the analysis of complex and massive data has emerged as a framework to find robust methodologies. When the crowdsourcing is done in the form of collaborative scientific competitions, known as Challenges, the validation of the methods is inherently addressed.
The focus on impact of published research has created new opportunities for misconduct and fraudsters, says Mario Biagioli.
A postdoc job is good for your career, but don't get stuck in an academic cul-de-sac, says Søren-Peter Olesen.
Senior staff at Nature, Science and other journals want to end inappropriate use of the measure.
Late nights, typos, self-doubt and despair. Francis Collins, Sara Seager and Uta Frith dust off their theses, and reflect on what the PhD was like for them.
Doctoral courses are slowly being modernized. Now the thesis and viva need to catch up.
