Animals and surgeryAll experimental procedures were approved by the Princeton University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee following the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Wild-type mice (JAX 000664) and Calcacre mice34 (JAX 033168) were obtained...
Trials suggest that offering payment can increase the chance of a researcher agreeing to review, and in some cases speed up the process. Credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/GettyA spate of research findings offer fresh evidence to the debate about whether peer...
Boulder, ColoradoA major Arctic-science conference got caught up this week in the fight between US President Donald Trump, who says the United States should take over Greenland, and Greenlandic and Danish leaders, who say it should not.Trump team ‘survey’ sent...
ChangemakersThis Nature Q&A series celebrates people who fight racism in science and who champion inclusion. It also highlights initiatives that could be applied to other scientific workplaces.One of the world’s top hunters of hominid fossils, palaeoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie, appears on...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has frozen hiring for non-faculty positions.Credit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg/GettyThe onslaught of US spending cuts is prompting drastic action by universities across the United States. Academic institutions are responding to the administration of US President...
At 3 p.m. on 30 December last year, residents of Mukuku village in Makueni county, Kenya, were startled by a loud crash. In the middle of a field lay a mysterious, smouldering metal ring, 2.5 metres across and weighing nearly...
With papers to write, grants to apply for and students to teach, cybersecurity can be a low priority for scientists. Until, that is, it all goes wrong.“Frankly, this is an awful time for science,” says Noam Ross, executive director of...
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Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.Credit: Jose A. Bernat Bacete/GettyLate last year, media outlets worldwide warned that black plastic cooking utensils contained worrying levels of cancer-linked flame retardants. The...
The main historical building on the campus of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.Credit: Gibson Green/AlamyIn an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific...
