Researchers interacting with the Changpa pastoral people in Changthang, Ladakh. Credit: Munib Khanyari Conservation science follows a top-down model where experts design projects, collect data, and draft policies while Indigenous communities, the stewards of biodiversity, are left out of decision-making. A new global framework1 challenges this approach and argues that conservation will only succeed if…

Researchers advance by standing on the shoulders of giants, to paraphrase Isaac Newton. So, which research giants are still getting cited frequently today? One way of answering that is to determine which articles appear most often in the reference lists of today’s research papers. Nature asked three bibliometricians who study patterns of references in scientific…

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Bipedal robots at Amazon’s Robotics Research and Development Hub in Sumner, Washington.Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from the administration of US President Donald Trump. A series of dramatic reductions in grants and budgets — including the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) slashing reimbursements…

Aleksandra Lazić helped to compile an open-access repository of social-science questionnaires, many of them translated or culturally adapted for use in Serbia.Credit: Matti Heikkurinen I was just beginning my PhD when my supervisor gave me my first assignment. She wanted me to gather and organize the social-science questionnaires — called instruments — that our laboratory…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The main spectrometer of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment.Credit: Uli Deck/dpa via Alamy New data slash estimated neutrino mass The most advanced neutrino weigh-in so far has put a new upper limit on the enigmatic…

Scientists in the United Kingdom faced uncertainty over funding during the Brexit departure process.Credit: Richard Baker/Getty The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union five years ago marked a watershed in a bruising battle to settle the country’s relationship with its closest international neighbours, many citizens of which had moved to the United Kingdom to…

Abstract Trust in scientists is a key predictor of compliance with science-based solutions to societal challenges. Although liberals in the USA generally trust scientists more than conservatives do, it is not clear how these ideological differences vary across different scientific occupations and whether they can be mitigated. Here, in this Registered Report (including 7,800 US…

Cellular agriculture is rapidly developing as an alternative protein source yet faces political friction. Research that explores novel pathways for the integration of cellular agriculture into conventional production; open and transparent science; as well as the development of lower cost, small and medium scale production systems can steer the industry in more socially desirable directions.…