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Five ways increased militarization could change scientific careers
Ukrainian soldiers test drones in Donetsk, Febuary 2025.Credit: Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Military budgets are growing, especially in
the struggles faced by researcher mothers
Adam Levy 00:00 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Off Limits: Academia’s Taboos, a podcast from Nature Careers. In
Why Europe barred China from flagship Horizon research programmes
Credit: Cheng Xin/Getty Chinese research organizations can no longer take part in most of the research grants funded by Horizon
escaping Myanmar’s military leadership for a PhD abroad
Many health-care workers in Myanmar joined the Civil Disobedience Movement to protest against a coup by the nation’s military.Credit: Ya
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent
French President Emmanuel Macron has launched Choose France initiatives to attract both foreign investors and scientists to his country.Credit: Gonzalo
US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency
Money could become harder to come by for European scientists if the overall European Research Council pot does not dramatically
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads
Overview of hifiasm (ONT) The existing hifiasm assembly toolkit consists of three approaches: the original hifiasm6, hifiasm (Hi-C)8 and hifiasm
This robot hand detaches and walks by itself
Human hands are incredibly dexterous tools — but they have their limits. They are asymmetric, they have only a single
Five ways to make the academic workplace happier and healthier this year
Many doctoral students and early-career researchers do not feel empowered to report poor working conditions or supervisor misconduct.Credit: Getty When
Exceeding 1.5 °C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy
Around ten years after the Paris climate agreement was adopted, the world is again at a crucial moment. In 2015,