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Scientists are warning that academic publishing needs urgent reform in order to retain trust in the research system. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay what has gone…

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91 Joanna Ruck Main image: Jane Goodall plays with Bahati, a three-year-old female chimpanzee, at…

The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently – for science that makes you laugh and then think – and the peace prize was given to a…

Researchers have created human eggs from skin cells, potentially transforming IVF treatment for couples who have no other options.The work is at an early stage but…

From TikTok videos touting mouth tape and weighted blankets, to magazines ranking insomnia-curbing pillows, sleep advice is everywhere. And it’s no wonder. People all over the…

Collaborations with a higher proportion of unpublished researchers can yield papers that present groundbreaking ideas.Credit: Stígur Már Karlsson/Heimsmyndir via GettyWhat characteristics drive scientific discovery? Experience is…

In an opinion piece published in The New York Times in March, two leading virologists argued that experiments on a coronavirus found in bats and similar…

Earlier today I set ten puzzles from a new book of silly visual puzzles.Here they are again – I have put the solutions together at the…

Julie Gould 00:09 Hello, and welcome to Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. I’m Julie Gould. This is the third episode of the career planning series,…

In a televised press conference on Monday, Donald Trump and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr made a series of unproven claims about autism and its…