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Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology
Credit: Getty Bar charts are ubiquitous in the life-science literature, yet a study suggests that they’re often used…
Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
Nature, Published online: 09 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04018-5 Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are…
This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Early this year, Anna Abalkina found out that her name was on a watch list for Roskomnadzor, a…
Where does poetry come from?
Nature, Published online: 03 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03848-7 Surveying poets on the unconscious sources of their verse, and an…
Australia must boost R&D investment to reclaim global research standing
The Apostles, Great Ocean Road, in Victoria, Australia.Credit: The Eternity Photography/Getty Australia’s exit from the Nature Index top…
Top performers hold steady in Australia’s declining research landscape
Between 2022 and 2023, Australia recorded the steepest drop in adjusted Share (9.4%) among the top 20 countries…
Why the word scientist was controversial 100 years ago
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03771-x The debate about adopting the term scientist, and musings on how…
Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, UK, one of the United Kingdom’s ‘legal deposit’ libraries. Access…
why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Bluesky has been growing rapidly since 2023.Credit: Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Researchers are flocking to the social-media platform Bluesky,…
Leading Nature Index science cities in biological sciences: collaboration powers US research
In the biological sciences, the United States has the leading Nature Index science cities. But although New York…