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Conference organizers appear hesitant to embrace virtual setups, says Verena Haage. For those that do, the benefits can be significant.

This visualization highlights how little we know about non-English scholarly production.

Some tested strategies to engage and retain talented under-represented scientists.

From Germany to India, researchers are grappling with how to run labs and lessons under extraordinary restrictions.

There is no single path to success, so here's a plan to help you choose.

This is a problem much larger than simply bias on the part of the Nobel selection committees – it’s systemic.

Government funding post-COVID-19 will see an increased emphasis on research impact. This could see blue skies research pushed into the private sector, says Daniel Hook

Enormous burden on younger researchers cannot be sustained.

Emerging trends are explored in this commentary on high-impact research outputs across 245 cities.

Sizing up the success of the world’s science hotspots.

China’s powerhouse holds firm as the number one city in the Nature Index.

A look at the inputs that result in high scientific research outputs.

The two US cities have a peerless partnership for life sciences.

Study aims to forecast success.

There’s a new journal for that. 

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

Here are four ways to keep on track.

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

It's time we abandoned the notion.

Olivia Rissland says reading a different paper every day has made her a better scientist.