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A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19
Abstract Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 proposed 19 policy recommendations (‘claims’) detailing how evidence from behavioural science could contribute to efforts to reduce impacts and end the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we assess 747 pandemic-related research articles that empirically investigated those…
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Where science meets Indian economics: in five charts
Download a PDF of this graphic This year, India overtook China to become the world’s most populous country. But it struggles to develop its economy and lags behind many other nations in terms of its investment in science and technology. How can better funding for research help its economic development? The human factor India has…
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Research in Chornobyl zone restarts amid ravages of war
In early 2022, ecologist Bohdan Prots was ready to begin a bold new project to restore ecosystems around the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. Prots and his team were preparing to recreate lost wetlands there in an effort to rewild them and cut the risks of wildfires that spread radioactivity. His first step…
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Amazon protector: the Brazilian politician who turned the tide on deforestation
Credit: Adriano Machado for Nature This story is part of Nature’s 10, an annual list compiled by Nature’s editors exploring key developments in science and the individuals who contributed to them. In a year that brought unrelenting bad environmental news, with record global warming, searing heatwaves and fires, Marina Silva delivered a hopeful message on…
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Malaria fighter: this researcher paved the way for a game-changing vaccine
This story is part of Nature’s 10, an annual list compiled by Nature’s editors exploring key developments in science and the individuals who contributed to them. In October, work and life collided for Halidou Tinto when his six-year-old daughter caught malaria. A director of clinical trials for malaria drugs and vaccines for more than a…
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Making mice with two dads: this biologist rewrote the rules on sexual reproduction
This story is part of Nature’s 10, an annual list compiled by Nature’s editors exploring key developments in science and the individuals who contributed to them. When Katsuhiko Hayashi and his colleagues announced in March that they had produced mouse pups from the cells of two male parents, the news literally floored some researchers. “I…
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From inception to current challenges in bioinformatics
Dr Paulien Hogeweg — professor of bioinformatics at Utrecht University, who in the 1970s, together with Ben Hesper, coined the term ‘bioinformatics’ — talks to Nature Computational Science about her work on the Cellular Potts model, the integration of spatial information in modeling approaches, and her ongoing research on multilevel evolution. My interest in the…
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Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy linked to hormone from fetus
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If you want something done right, do it yourself: the scientists who build their own tools
Industry doesn’t always make the intricate tools that research demands, pushing some scientists to take DIY to the extreme.Credit: NPL In science, as any researcher knows, the right tools can be the crucial difference between making a discovery and wasting time. But what happens when the right tools simply don’t exist? Against a backdrop of…
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How high-impact papers from Indian researchers are shaping science
The haze that causes widespread health problems in Delhi is the focus of highly cited studies by researchers in India.Credit: Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times/Shutterstock India was the world’s third-most-prolific publisher of research papers in 2022, but it was ranked only 153rd for the number of citations it received per paper. Indeed, in 2020, about 30% of…