- April 7, 2025
Why more AI researchers should collaborate with governments
Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to transform many industries, yet its use to improve public services remains limited globally. AI-based
Trump levies raise cost of supplies
Higher tariffs on imports into the United States is affecting the global trade of laboratory supplies.Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles
How to get rid of toxic ‘forever chemical’ pollution
This February, 14 lorries set out from Wilmington, North Carolina, with a toxic cargo: more than 150 tonnes of grit-like
Publishers trial paying peer reviewers — what did they find?
Trials suggest that offering payment can increase the chance of a researcher agreeing to review, and in some cases speed
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US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has frozen hiring for non-faculty positions.Credit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg/Getty The onslaught of US spending
How ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers
Animals do not always need to be used in preclinical studies.Credit: Evgenyi Eg / Getty While Catharine Krebs was working
A radical manifesto for truth
A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How To Get It Mike Berners-Lee Cambridge Univ. Press (2025) I
Your lab pollutes: here’s how to stop it
Nature, Published online: 14 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00500-w Single-use plastics are everywhere — but two researchers are redefining the norm and
Public-health experts should be more political, not less
As the COVID-19 pandemic has abated, mortality from other causes in the United States has kept climbing, reflecting disturbing trends