- March 29, 2025
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
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.Credit: Jose A. Bernat
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
We’ve seen the headlines: on 14 February, the US Department of Education ruled that race-based scholarships and diversity, equity and
How academia’s ‘lone wolf’ culture is harming researcher mental health
Adam Levy 00:02 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind matters: academia’s mental health crisis, a podcast from Nature