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Women have disrupted research on bird song, and show how diversity can improve all fields of science

For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.

Kevin Omland, Evangeline Rose & Karan Odom | 16 September 2020

How early-career researchers can avoid ethical ‘grey areas’

Here are four ways to keep on track.

Gemma Conroy | 10 September 2020

Science is getting harder to read

From obscure acronyms to unnecessary jargon, research papers are increasingly impenetrable – even for scientists.

Dalmeet Singh Chawla | 10 September 2020
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Comment

Retractions: the good, the bad, and the ugly

What researchers stand to gain from taking more care to understand errors in the scientific record.

Quan-Hoang Vuong | 8 September 2020

The decline of women's research production during the coronavirus pandemic

Preprints analysis suggests a disproportionate impact on early career researchers.

Philippe Vincent-Lamarre et al. | 19 May 2020
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Listings

Google Scholar reveals its most influential papers for 2020

Artificial intelligence papers amass citations more than any other research topic.

Bec Crew | 13 July 2020

The 5 most popular scientific papers of April 2020

A colossal sea beast and a swampy rainforest at the South Pole feature in some of the stand-out papers from April.

Bec Crew | 29 May 2020
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Nature Index 360°

Behind the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus dashboard

How a spur-of-the-moment decision went viral.

Jeffrey Perkel | 7 April 2020

Scientists reveal what they learnt from their biggest mistakes

How retractions can be a way forward.

Gemma Conroy | 3 March 2020
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Technology

PanLingua: a free online tool that makes bioRxiv multilingual

How to read English preprints in any of the 104 languages recognized by Google Translate.

Jeffrey M. Perkel | 6 March 2020

Just say "no" to manels

There’s an app for that. 

Jeffrey Perkel | 7 February 2020
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Dataviz

This interactive map reveals which journals cite each other the most

Capturing the exchange of ideas.

Gemma Conroy | 14 February 2020

Scientists are curious and passionate and ready to argue

A robot career adviser’s personality assessment, based on analysis of tweets.

Catherine Armitage | 12 February 2020
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Careers

Scientists reveal weirdest things they’ve done in the name of science

From sending cakes into space to filling their refrigerators with cat poo, scientists detail the bizarre lengths they’ve gone to in the pursuit of research.

John Pickrell | 19 November 2019
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Q&A

The 10 most common mistakes with statistics, and how to avoid them

Significant results are not the only goal.

Gemma Conroy | 11 November 2019

Q&A: Bored with bad conferences? It's time to demand more

Calling out the time-wasters.

Bec Crew | 1 November 2019
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