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Faced with a deluge of papers, journal editors are struggling to find willing peer reviewers.

Government report calls for greater rigour and transparency in federally funded science.

Approaches to capturing the benefits of research on society are improving — but huge challenges remain.

Mothers in academic research and those who support them say in a report that the funding system can and should remedy gender bias in the sciences.

Analysis shows that some researchers publish a considerable proportion of their own work in journals they edit.

Group leaders must find ways to efficiently cut costs without sacrificing research quality.

Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.

Research-integrity survey also suggests that there is a split in US- and Europe-based researchers’ perceptions of ‘questionable research practices’.

The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century.

Machine-learning tool needs to be more accurate before it can replace or aid human assessment in the UK Research Excellence Framework.

The US Food and Drug Administration is looking at ways to lower approved doses to improve quality of life during chemotherapy.

After years of setbacks, the field is starting to deliver on its promises.

The field’s overall footprint in the Nature Index continues to grow, but trends vary at regional and institutional levels.

Approaches to therapy that have long been stuck in the lab are finally finding their way into the clinic.

Miniaturized versions of human tissue offer greater complexity than the Petri dish and could be an alternative to animal testing.

With a dearth of new antibiotics coming to market, researchers are finding creative ways to keep bacteria at bay.

Solving the public health crisis will take time, money and cooperation.

Beset by regulatory issues and barriers to international collaboration, the country still faces challenges in commercializing basic research.

Tracking patent citations and academic–corporate collaboration points to some of the pioneers in knowledge application.

The COVID-19 crisis echoed the ‘all-hands-on-deck’ response to the Second World War, but such agility needs to be maintained.