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Three Institutional Pathways to Envision the Future of the IPCC - Nature Climate Change

Three Institutional Pathways to Envision the Future of the IPCC - Nature Climate Change

The IPCC has been successful at building its scientific authority, but it will require institutional reform for staying relevant to new and changing political contexts. Exploring a range of alternative future pathways for the IPCC can help guide crucial decisions about redefining its purpose.

re3data - Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012

re3data - Indexing the Global Research Data Repository Landscape Since 2012

For more than ten years, re3data, a global registry of research data repositories (RDRs), has been helping scientists, funding agencies, libraries, and data centers with finding, identifying, and referencing RDRs.

If AI Becomes Conscious: Here's How Researchers Will Know

If AI Becomes Conscious: Here's How Researchers Will Know

Many researchers say that AI systems aren’t yet at the point of consciousness, but that the pace of AI evolution has got them pondering: how would we know if they were? A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories could aid in the assessment. 

Allow Patents on AI-generated Inventions - for the Good of Science

Allow Patents on AI-generated Inventions - for the Good of Science

The current global mishmash of rules on whether innovations made using artificial intelligence are patentable impedes AI-rich fields such as drug discovery.

Scientific Publishing Has a Language Problem

Scientific Publishing Has a Language Problem

Science is international, but scientific publishing is dominated by English-language publications. This disproportionately benefits native or fluent English speakers. Steps to address the imbalance this creates are taken, and new technology may help.

Can India's New Billion-dollar Funding Agency Boost Research?

Can India's New Billion-dollar Funding Agency Boost Research?

India's proposed National Research Foundation will shake up the scientific landscape to encourage a culture of research.

Citizens' Perceptions of Research and Innovation Dilemmas: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey in Four European Regions

Citizens' Perceptions of Research and Innovation Dilemmas: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey in Four European Regions

This study presents a valuable dataset supporting regional research and innovation systems in four European regions: Vestland (Norway), Kriti (Greece), Galicia (Spain), and Overijssel (Netherlands). It focuses on understanding citizens’ perceptions of research and innovation dilemmas within these regions. 

Science's Gender Gap: the Shocking Data That Reveal Its True Extent

Science's Gender Gap: the Shocking Data That Reveal Its True Extent

Analysis of which researchers publish, get credit, move around, get funding, collaborate and receive citations shows how deeply ingrained the bias against women is.

How Centuries of Sexism Excluded Women from Science - and How to Redress the Balance

How Centuries of Sexism Excluded Women from Science - and How to Redress the Balance

Physicist Athene Donald's research was dismissed as 'cookery'. Now she's written a primer on how to fight back.

Sweden's Researchers Outraged at Decision to Axe Development-Research Funding

Sweden's Researchers Outraged at Decision to Axe Development-Research Funding

Sudden move could derail collaborations that have taken decades to build, scientists say. International-development researchers in Sweden are in turmoil after the country’s government decided to cut all further public research funding for the field.

Scientists Used ChatGPT to Generate an Entire Paper from Scratch - But Is It Any Good?

Scientists Used ChatGPT to Generate an Entire Paper from Scratch - But Is It Any Good?

Scientists have produced a research paper in less than an hour with the help of ChatGPT - but researchers say that there are many hurdles to overcome before the tool can be truly helpful.

United States to End Race-Based University Admissions: What Now for Diversity in Science?

United States to End Race-Based University Admissions: What Now for Diversity in Science?

The US Supreme Court has struck down colleges’ and universities’ right to use race as a factor in deciding which students they admit.

A Mission-Driven Approach for Converting Research into Climate Action

A Mission-Driven Approach for Converting Research into Climate Action

With each IPCC report, the science basis around climate change increases extensively in terms of scope, depth, and complexity. In converting this knowledge into societal climate action, research organisations face the challenge of reforming themselves.

War Shattered Ukrainian Science - Its Rebirth is Now Taking Shape

War Shattered Ukrainian Science - Its Rebirth is Now Taking Shape

The war is far from over but Ukraine's government is already considering how to build back - and use the opportunity to move on from a Soviet-era system.

More Carrot, Less Stick: How to Make Research Assessments Fairer

More Carrot, Less Stick: How to Make Research Assessments Fairer

Research-assessment exercises are often misused to judge researchers or cut their funding - changes to the United Kingdom's scheme are a promising start.

Scientific Utopias: Tackling an Early-morning Crisis at the Institute of Merged Sciences

Scientific Utopias: Tackling an Early-morning Crisis at the Institute of Merged Sciences

Earlier this year, Nature co-sponsored a science-fiction essay competition. In Katherine Ember's winning essay, researchers have an immediate responsibility to the public. They're asked to act urgently to help society.

Revealed: the Millions of Dollars in Time Wasted Making Papers Fit Journal Guidelines

Revealed: the Millions of Dollars in Time Wasted Making Papers Fit Journal Guidelines

For scientists submitting their papers to journals, there’s an all-too-familiar drill: spend hours formatting the paper to meet the journal’s guidelines; if the paper is rejected, sink more time into reformatting it for another journal; repeat. Now an analysis has put a price tag on all that busy work.

Collective Action is Needed to Build a More Just Science System

Collective Action is Needed to Build a More Just Science System

The current science system is unjust - from the systems that determine its membership to its outputs and outcomes. This article advocates for contextually responsive, collective action to build a more just science system.

Scientific Utopias: Scientific Enlightenment in the Stupid Questions Office

Scientific Utopias: Scientific Enlightenment in the Stupid Questions Office

Earlier this year, Nature co-sponsored a science-fiction essay competition. According to runner-up Miles Lizak's science-fiction essay, an ideal research institution would foster curiosity and collaboration, placing greater value on asking brave questions rather than claiming to know all the answers.

Data, Measurement and Empirical Methods in the Science of Science - Nature Human Behaviour

Data, Measurement and Empirical Methods in the Science of Science - Nature Human Behaviour

Liu and coauthors review the major data sources, measures and analysis methods in the science of science, discussing how recent developments in these fields can help researchers to better predict science-making outcomes and design better science policies.

EU Council's 'No Pay' Publishing Model Draws Mixed Response

EU Council's 'No Pay' Publishing Model Draws Mixed Response

EU ministers have called for a ‘no pay’ academic-publishing model that bears no cost to readers or authors. Some academics have welcomed the proposed plans - but publishing industry representatives warn they are unrealistic.