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This doctor raised the alarm about a deadly mpox outbreak that went global
Early this year, cases of mpox erupted across Central Africa, killing hundreds. Seeing the events unfold so soon after the still-simmering outbreak of 2022 “felt like scientific amnesia”, says Placide Mbala, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Enjoying our latest…
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This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Early this year, Anna Abalkina found out that her name was on a watch list for Roskomnadzor, a Russian agency that tracks online and social-media activity. Abalkina, a Russian citizen now working in Berlin, tries not to worry about it. There shouldn’t be a risk if she were to return to Russia, she reasons. “But…
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What’s next for Syria’s science: a view from Nature’s reporter who was a refugee
On the morning of 8 December, along with millions of Syrians, I awoke to a country no longer governed by the iron fist of the regime that had ruled for 54 years. I am Syrian but I no longer live in Syria. I am now a science journalist on staff at Nature and living in…
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‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina
Javier Milei took office as Argentina’s President on 10 December last year.Credit: Tomas F. Cuesta/Bloomberg via Getty Images It has been one year since libertarian President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and the nation’s science is facing collapse, researchers say. Milei’s agenda to reduce the country’s deficit and lower inflation — which had topped…
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Soundboard-trained dogs produce non-accidental, non-random and non-imitative two-button combinations
Abstract Early studies attempting interspecies communication with great apes trained to use sign language and Augmented Interspecies Communication (AIC) devices were limited by methodological and technological constraints, as well as restrictive sample sizes. Evidence for animals’ intentional production of symbols was met with considerable criticisms which could not be easily deflected with existing data. More…
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This PhD student helped to win a major pay hike for Canadian researchers
On 16 April 2024, Kaitlin Kharas was one of a select few people ushered into an office across the street from the Canadian Parliament and given a sneak peek at the latest budget. Enjoying our latest content? Login or create an account to continue Access the most recent journalism from Nature’s award-winning team Explore the…
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A scalable framework for learning the geometry-dependent solution operators of partial differential equations
Abstract Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using numerical methods is a ubiquitous task in engineering and medicine. However, the computational costs can be prohibitively high when many-query evaluations of PDE solutions on multiple geometries are needed. Here we aim to address this challenge by introducing Diffeomorphic Mapping Operator Learning (DIMON), a generic artificial intelligence framework…
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A 60-minute guide to landing your next job in science
Pursuing a career in science requires a wide range of skills.Credit: Getty A live webinar to help job-seeking scientists land their next role in academia, industry and other sectors is now available to watch as on demand. Held last month, the one-hour event run by Nature’s careers team attracted more than 600 attendees, many of…
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Nine books to help shape your science career in 2025
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Nine books to help shape your science career in 2025
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…