Structural biology is essential for understanding diseases and for developing drugs and vaccines. Africa has few specialists in this field, owing to limited infrastructure, training and mentorship opportunities — despite the efforts of…
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No world-changing discoveries without biodiversity
Your Feature points out that US cuts to research budgets will decrease the likelihood of world-changing innovations that arise from basic science (see Nature 646, 1040–1043; 2025). There’s another dimension worth considering, too — most of the…
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Same-sex sex is a normal part of some primates’ lives
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Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears
Evolution and breeding have wrought a wide variety of ear lengths in our canine companions.Credit: Getty
A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby like a…
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AI writing tools could lead scholars from low-income countries to erase their own voices
You have documented how large language models (LLMs) risk hardwiring scientific inequalities into the texts that they help to produce (see, for example, Nature 645, 285; 2025). As the use of LLMs spreads, it becomes more likely that some voices will…
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The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us
As the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia marks its 25th anniversary this month, the academic community must confront an uncomfortable truth: we have systematically failed our greatest knowledge commons.
Why these scientists devote time to…
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a huge study offers clues
Bruno Lage, then-manager of the football team Wolverhampton Wanderers, receives his COVID-19 vaccination in December 2021.Credit: Jack Thomas – WWFC/Wolves via Getty
Although some people were initially hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19…
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How did birds evolve? The answer is wilder than anyone thought
Some 150 million years ago, Europe was tropical — and mostly underwater. The entire continent was closer to the equator than it is today, and what is now Germany and its neighbouring countries was submerged under a shallow inland sea, dotted…
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Should the Loch Ness Monster have a scientific name?
Nature, Published online: 13 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03991-9
A debate over a potential newly discovered species, and a tip for buying good sherry in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
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Don’t assume that women’s low retraction rates reflect male ‘boldness’
We welcome your coverage of the finding that articles led by women are markedly under-represented among retracted publications (see Nature 647, 833–834; 2025). But the suggestion that this is because male researchers undergo more scrutiny, propose…
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