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These 10 American universities dominated life sciences in 2018

These academic institutions in the US made the biggest contributions to the discipline in the Nature Index.

Nature Index | 19 September 2019

The top universities in the best countries for scientific research

The world's best.

Nature Index | 17 September 2019

Times Higher Education releases its World University Rankings 2020

The United States dominates, but cracks are showing.

Bec Crew | 12 September 2019
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News

Frequent collaborators are less likely to produce replicable results

Stick with who you don't know. 

Gemma Conroy | 20 September 2019

South Korea’s ‘Nobel prize project’ gets overhaul

The Institute for Basic Science has been rocked by accusations of financial mismanagement over the past year.

Mark Zastrow | 18 September 2019
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Comment

"There is a problem": Australia's top scientist Alan Finkel pushes to eradicate bad science

A new publishing standard should be introduced to weed out unscrupulous research journals.

Alan Finkel | 19 September 2019

The hidden cost of having a eureka moment, but not being able to put it in your own words

Publishing in an “international” journal now refers to an English-language journal.

Sneha Kulkarni | 29 August 2019
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Technology

A “petting zoo for code” makes studies easier to reproduce

A new tool helps users to compose, compute and publish reproducible articles.

Jeffrey M. Perkel | 18 June 2019

Drawing on experience to help scientists tell their stories

The BioRender web tool lets researchers easily create sophisticated scientific illustrations.

Jeffrey M. Perkel | 19 March 2019
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Nature Index 360°

Out of date before it's published

Zika provides a vision for how to keep pace with a fast-moving research field.

Jon Brock | 30 July 2019

Career mobility: Researchers change places to progress

Moving countries to further a career in science has its benefits, but it isn’t an option for everyone.

Smriti Mallapaty (Data analysis by Rodrigo Costas Comesana) | 1 April 2019
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Q&A

Q&A: Four false beliefs that are thwarting trustworthy research

Science doesn't self-correct – at least not fast enough.

Gemma Conroy | 13 September 2019

Q&A Daniele Fanelli: Retracting your own paper can lead to a spike in citations

Authors who retract papers due to an honest mistake are praised by peer-reviewers.

Gemma Conroy | 6 September 2019
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Dataviz

This morbid simulation reveals how people tend to die

Trends both disturbing and revealing.

Bec Crew | 17 September 2019

These are the happiest countries in the world

Wealth isn't everything. 

Gemma Conroy | 10 September 2019
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