Let the data talk: embrace exploratory research
Attending a psychology conference this month, I was struck by an unsettling trend in social-science research. The abstract book revealed
eight ways to show gratitude at the end of year
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Limits on foreign students are harming research, universities warn
Immigration rules restricting the number of foreign students in some countries are putting universities under pressure. From the United Kingdom
life at the heart of an outbreak
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Evidence of oldest known alphabet unearthed among Syrian tomb treasures
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How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record
It worked: in February 2021, the scientists bested the previous record by 70% and achieved nearly one-tenth of the output
A gift guide for the conscious consumer
The holidays are a time of joy and goodwill. They also happen to be one of the most wasteful times
Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, UK, one of the United Kingdom’s ‘legal deposit’ libraries. Access has not
Antimatter to be transported outside a lab for first time — in a van
Two teams of CERN physicists are racing to perform an extraordinary feat: transporting antimatter for the first time. Antimatter —
Why the word scientist was controversial 100 years ago
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03771-x The debate about adopting the term scientist, and musings on how the content