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With a little twisting, the continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Observations of matching rock units and fossils added to evidence that now distant continents were once linked. In 1912,...
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The Great Pyramid’s void, deadly heat and more: the most popular science...
24 of 2017’s top papers in the Altmetric Top 100 were published in Nature Research journals: Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology & Evolution,...
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Training to write, submit and publish a scientific paper
Credit: Ludic Creatives This is a guest blog from Andrea Aguilar, Publishing Manager in the Nature Masterclasses team at Nature Research. Andrea spoke to delegates in November at SpotOn, an annual...
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Are you aware of gender bias in peer review?
This guest blog comes from Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Editor, Peer Review Strategy and Innovation BMC at Springer Nature, and Elisa de Ranieri, Head of Editorial Process and Data Analytics, Nature...
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Our 10 most popular CRISPR papers of 2017
Hopes are high that CRISPR–Cas9 could one day be used in people to correct mutations that cause disease. 2017 witnessed incredible advances in the gene editing technology – we present a synopsis of...
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Chinese New Year | 2018: Year of the Dog
Happy Chinese New Year! 2018 is the Year of the Dog, so we’ve put together a list of our favourite canine-related research papers from recent years. Nature Research invites readers to learn about the...
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Our pick of graphene papers from 2017
Looking back, 2017 was a great year for advances in graphene research. Lightweight and flexible, yet durable, graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. The...
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International Women’s Day 2018 – supporting equity in the physical sciences
This guest blog comes from May Chiao, Chief Editor of Nature Astronomy. In the 1990s when I was studying physics, women were scarce, and it’s difficult to say who complained more about that, the men...
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A multidisciplinary forum for machine intelligence
Now open for submissions, Nature Machine Intelligence will study all aspects of intelligent machines by exploring a broad spectrum of topics across artificial Intelligence and robotics, as well as...
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Nature Research journals trial new tools to enhance code peer review and...
Starting this month, three Nature journals—Nature Methods, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Machine Intelligence—will run a trial in partnership with Code Ocean to enable authors to share...
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Peer Review Week 2018: Creating equal opportunities for peer reviewers...
This guest blog comes from James Houghton, Associate Publishing Manager, Nature Masterclasses. This year’s Peer Review Week ― a global event celebrating the essential of role peer in maintaining...
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Nature Research journals improve accessibility of data availability statements
The Nature Research journals have taken further steps to promote transparency and reproducibility by making information on the availability of research data within our articles easier to access....
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Supporting early career researchers through travel grants
As part of our commitment to championing the cause of promising early career researchers, the Communications journals (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) introduce a new series of travel grants. This...
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Towards minimal reporting standards for life scientists
This guest blog comes from a group of journal editors and experts in reproducibility and transparent reporting, who are putting together a framework for minimal reporting standards in the life...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, beer supplies and more: the most popular...
Twenty-two of 2018’s papers in the Altmetric Top 100 were published in Nature Research journals: Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Plants, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Climate Change, Nature Human...
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Recognising the contribution of Nature Research journal referees
This guest blog comes from Ritu Dhand, VP Editorial, Nature Journals. Nature’s trial to formally acknowledge the contribution of its peer reviewers by naming them on published papers with permission of...
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Peer Review Week 2019: Improving peer review quality through transparent,...
This guest blog comes from Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Editorial Policy and Research Integrity for Nature Research By the time a research study reaches the peer review process, many crucial decisions...
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What we have learnt testing container-platforms for peer review and...
A year ago now, we launched a trial to test the use of cloud-container platforms for peer review and publication of code at several Nature journals. The trial phase of this initiative is now officially...
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Journals test the Materials Design Analysis Reporting (MDAR) checklist
Springer Nature This guest blog comes from Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Editorial Policy and Research Integrity at Nature Research. We are pleased to share results from a pilot with 13 journals testing...
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A dedicated home for computational science
This guest blog comes from Fernando Chirigati, Chief Editor of Nature Computational Science. Recent advances in computer technology, be it in hardware or in software, have revolutionized the way...
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