Nature - The cost-of-living crisis is a fundamental threat for PhD scholars and early-career researchers. They need to be paid properly.

Nature - As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.

Nature - Other countries on lockdown will be watching for a resurgence of infections in Hubei province now that travel restrictions are lifting.

Nature - In Henrietta Lacks’s centennial year, researchers must do more to ensure that human cells cannot be taken without consent.

Nature - The new president has the opportunity to reverse four years of anti-science policies — but he also inherits a nation divided.

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

Nature - In the 150 years since the first issue was published, Nature has evolved alongside the research community it serves. We hope to continue to grow in the years to come.

Nature - Learning to handle failure is just part of scientific life, writes Eileen Parkes.

Nature - What the reproduction number can and can’t tell us about managing COVID-19.

Nature - Svante Pääbo has made stunning discoveries about human evolution using ancient DNA — and his work helped to spawn the competitive field of palaeogenomics.

Nature - This journal will double down on efforts to diversify the pool of corresponding authors and referees.

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Nature - Science funders must remember the value of addressing the intrinsic biological questions that help to explain the natural world.

Francis Collins pledged to decline to speak at conferences that do not include enough women in prominent speaking roles.

Nature - A survey of 8,341 mutations in 21 yeast genes shows that synonymous mutations are nearly as harmful as nonsynonymous mutations, in part because they both affect the mRNA level of the gene...

Since its initial release in 2000, the human reference genome has covered only the euchromatic fraction of the genome, leaving important heterochromatic regions unfinished. Addressing the remaining...

Nature - All research institutions need a procedure for dealing with bullies.

Nature - Allele-specific single-cell RNA sequencing provides insights into transcription kinetics, with data indicating that core promoter sequences affect burst size, whereas enhancers mainly...

Whether you approach an editor in person, over email or on the phone, make sure to tap into their passion for the subject, writes Nature’s Magdalena Skipper

Nature - All researchers should strive to improve the quality, relevance and reliability of their work.

A guest-edited collection of features, comment and analysis examines researchers’ experiences of racism, the impacts of systemic racism and how science can and must change.

Nature - Atomic bomb historian Richard Rhodes talks to Nature about how researchers fare in the film, and what it gets right and wrong.

Nature - Mentors can have a lasting influence, but it’s important to carve your own niche.

Nature - The pandemic has worsened the plight of postdoctoral researchers. Funders need to be offering more than moral support.

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Nature - A new code of conduct strives for more-diverse research meetings and events.

Nature - One hundred years after her birth, it’s time to reassess the legacy of a pioneering chemist and X-ray crystallographer.

Nature - A neural network can predict gene expression from promoter sequence.

More than 30 publishers have committed to making all of their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in public repositories.

Nature - Researchers added 200 million DNA base pairs and 115 protein-coding genes — but they’ve yet to entirely sequence the Y chromosome.

Nature - Laboratory heads need training, support and accountability to connect people across cultures, says David Asai.

Nature - Wellcome is right to call out hyper-competitiveness in research and question the focus on excellence. But other funders must follow its move.

Nature - The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium aims to offer the highest quality and most complete human pangenome reference that provides diverse genomic representation across human populations.

Scientist documenting coral reef decline and whistleblower on alternative therapy industry share award

Nature - E-mails and instant messaging are core to research — but also a distraction. Researchers should study their impact on science, and how they can claw back time to concentrate.

Nature - The physician-researcher who spoke out against misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against science are formidable — and getting worse.

Nature - Microchip entrepreneur and architect of Moore’s Law.

Scientists said 99% of understanding of cancer was missing until today.

Nature - Twenty years ago, the twentieth century’s last great scientific contest ended in a tie, aided by some deft statecraft from the White House.

Ten people who mattered in science in 2018. Picks include a rogue gene-editor, a wunderkind physicist and a DNA detective who helped catch a serial killer.

Nature Communications - Intricate color patterns are a defining aspect of morphological diversity in the Felidae. Here the authors apply morphological and single-cell gene expression analysis to...

Nature - As lockdowns force scientists worldwide to put their research on hold, funders are introducing measures to minimize stress.

Nature - An adult infected with HIV-1 who underwent allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for Hodgkin’s lymphoma using cells from a CCR5Δ32/Δ32 donor achieved full...

Nature - High-profile allegations of bullying at a German research institute highlight the need for better systems to protect young scientists.

Nature - Postdoctoral researchers still feel as though they are academia’s drudge labourers, but have more confidence about job prospects in a post-pandemic world.

Nature - A study of patients with COVID-19 and healthy donors found CD4+ T cells that react to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and human endemic coronaviruses; however, the effect of pre-existing...