Machines learn to unearth new materials
Materials scientists are increasingly turning to machine learning and other computational techniques to discover new materials. From...
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- May 17
Three leading women in science share the highlight of their careers
As innovators, women in science – and particularly those in minority ethnic groups – can face major challenges in getting their ideas...
- Mar 24
Southeast Asian countries join forces for scientific strength
Thanks to Pimchai Chaiyen, members of the Mahaphot community, in Nan, northern Thailand, now get value from their food scraps. In 2019,...
- Feb 10
Inclusion in the time of COVID: 14 ways to seize the moment for change
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence suggests a widening of inequalities in academic science, technology, engineering,...
- Jan 29
The 5 most talked-about scientific papers of November 2020 in the Nature Index journals
November’s most talked-about natural-sciences papers included three on COVID-19, and one investigating the little-studied effect of a...
- Jan 11
Six researchers who are shaping the future of artificial intelligence
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ubiquitous in fields such as medicine, education and security, there are significant ethical and...
- Dec 17, 2020
Male sex identified by global COVID-19 meta-analysis as a risk factor for death and ITU admission
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, exhibits differences in...
- Dec 9, 2020
Hope, fear and climate scientists
Kai Wan, a first-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, UK, studies the impact of extreme temperatures on mortality in Scotland...
- Dec 1, 2020
‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
An artificial intelligence (AI) network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of biology’s...
- Nov 26, 2020
Associations between blood type and COVID-19 infection, intubation, and death
The rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has strained healthcare and testing resources, making the identification and...
- Nov 20, 2020
US president-elect Joe Biden must quickly restore science to government
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a mountain to climb, but the work starts now.Credit: Drew Angerer/GettyAfter four years of daily...
- Oct 27, 2020
Nature Index’s top five science cities, by the numbers
Despite substantial progress towards clearing them, Beijing’s notoriously polluted skies remain one of its biggest public policy and...
- Oct 23, 2020
Beijing, the seat of science capital
When Zhu Dongqiang moved from Nanjing to Beijing five years ago, he continued applying for joint grants with his former colleagues,...
- Oct 3, 2020
How early-career researchers can avoid ethical ‘grey areas’
Navigating ethical grey areas can be a major challenge for researchers. This is especially true when conducting pandemic-related...
- Sep 26, 2020
The idea that a scientific theory can be ‘falsified’ is a myth
J.B.S. Haldane, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology theory, was reportedly asked what it would take for him to lose faith...
- Sep 15, 2020
Science is getting harder to read
Science is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, long sentences, and impenetrable jargon in academic...
- Aug 26, 2020
Post-pandemic, fieldwork faces a remote future
When Richard Primack, a biologist at Boston University in Massachusetts, realized that many of his students would be unable to learn new...