The science of foresight: how to future-proof your research
Every research programme is a bet on the future. Yet, scientists rarely examine the assumptions behind those bets.…
Can you actually do a nine-to-five PhD? Nature readers weigh in
Credit: Monty Rakusen/Getty In April, Nature published advice from doctoral candidates and PhD holders who had managed the…
The complex truth about trust in science
You have full access to this article via your institution. People are more likely to trust scientists when…
A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science
LMU Munich, Munich, Germany Stefan Feuerriegel, Kerstin Forster, Dominique Geissler, Abdurahman Maarouf, Sebastian Maier & Barbara Plank Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany…
why a high publication rate doesn’t always reflect success
Israel Sebastian / Getty ‘Publish or perish’ is a common mantra in academia. By that metric, I definitely…
five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots
In the early 1980s, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as “a bicycle for our minds”. He…
What’s the best way to change research fields? These three scientists have ideas
Jumping to a new research topic is intimidating but can enable diverse teams and creative breakthroughs.Credit: Getty In…
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
A decade ago, we and others launched a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a…
record, share and value it
From short scripts to vast simulations of Earth’s climate, protein structures or even the cosmos, it is hard…
should research on mirror-image molecular biology be stopped?
In theory, all biological structures, functions and even organisms could be recreated in their mirror image, leading to…