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...
Schultz, W., Dayan, P. & Montague, P. R. A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275, 1593–1599 (1997).Article PubMed MATH Google Scholar Gershman, S. J. & Uchida, N. Believing in dopamine. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-019-0220-7 (2019).Wood, A. N. New...
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...
Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin Icon Books (2025)What is it with toilets? In domestic households, men and women use the same ones without a fuss, but at some point in history it became...
Adam Levy 00:02 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind matters: academia’s mental health crisis, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: rethinking academia. This is the eighth and final episode of this special series looking at the...
If the number of on-camera screams is any indication, Kim Kardashian’s first encounter with epigenetics was a thrilling one.The reality-television star and her family shrieked and squealed in the season finale of The Kardashians in Los Angeles, California, last July...
