Cryptocurrency will be used to reward peer reviewers for an experimental title called ResearchHub Journal.Credit: bizoo_n/Getty An experimental journal is paying peer reviewers the equivalent of US$150 per review in a specially developed cryptocurrency. The publication is hosted on a platform aiming to make science more open and efficient, and rewards users with a token…

Shobhana Narasimhan gives a talk in Bengaluru on the topic of women in science.Credit: CreativeMornings Bengaluru The global impact of India’s materials-science research is on the rise, with Nature Index data showing it has risen six places in the country ranking since 2019. But separate data from publisher Elsevier point to a more worrying problem:…

Materials science is a field that is seeing strong growth in the Nature Index. From 2019 to 2023, there was a 25% increase in the number of articles in the database related to the subject and last year these papers represented 27.2% of all research in its journals. In terms of the countries publishing this…

The results of scientific studies should be accompanied by information that individuals can use to make uncertainty judgements. By including this information, we might increase trust in the scientific process. We advocate for scientists to use quantitative uncertainty informative data to provide this information when reporting results. This is a preview of subscription content, access…

A doctor at Shanghai’s Changzheng Hospital, who is behind a world-first treatment for autoimmune disease, has been announced as part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Dr Xu Huji led his team to adopt a novel CAR-T cell immunotherapy by using genetically engineered, healthy-donor-derived cells to treat patients with…

A doctor at Shanghai’s Changzheng Hospital, who is behind a world-first treatment for autoimmune disease, has been announced as part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Dr Xu Huji led his team to adopt a novel CAR-T cell immunotherapy by using genetically engineered, healthy-donor-derived cells to treat patients with…

Abstract Scientific discovery in connectomics relies on network null models. The prominence of network features is conventionally evaluated against null distributions estimated using randomized networks. Modern imaging technologies provide an increasingly rich array of biologically meaningful edge weights. Despite the prevalence of weighted graph analysis in connectomics, randomization models that only preserve binary node degree…

A fraud buster, a nuclear-clock maker and a virus hunter. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for this year’s Nature’s 10. The Nature’s 10 list recognizes key developments in science over the past year, and tells the stories of some of the people behind them. It is compiled by Nature’s editors…

Sharks Don’t Sink Jasmin Graham Pantheon (2024) Burnt out by a ”toxic, white, male-dominated publish-or-perish environment”, tired of being left to clean up rooms after a meeting and talked to as though she was lazy, Jasmin Graham quit academia in December 2019. Scrolling through Twitter (now X) one day in 2020 — during the pandemic…