In response to high retraction rates, India, Peru and Vietnam have introduced guidelines and disciplinary measures against research misconduct.Credit: designer491/iStock via Getty In a bid to tighten research standards, governments and funders in countries with emerging research systems are increasingly rolling out disciplinary measures for researchers who do the wrong thing. The policies include docking
Credit: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis/Getty Grit and determination feature in most scientific careers, but the Israeli structural biologist Ada Yonath surmounted more obstacles than most. Yonath was the first to grow crystals suitable for X-ray analysis that would reveal the structure of the ribosome — a macromolecular complex that functions as a factory for proteins in living
Researchers found that land use is a key factor in the decomposition of underwear, more so than other soil characteristics.Credit: Gabriela Brändle/Agroscope The recognition and prestige of a Nobel prize for groundbreaking work comes with a gold medal and the equivalent of about US$1 million. The parody version, an Ig Nobel prize, devised to celebrate
Scientists work in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which could lose research projects to the US Department of Defense.Credit: NIAID Update: After this story was published, the US Department of Defense responded to Nature’s request for comment with a statement confirming that the department has signed a research agreement
The Bunsen burner’s future in modern microbiology labs is flickering, some scientists say. Credit: Alfonso Fabio Iozzino/Alamy The Bunsen burner, a workhorse of biology and chemistry labs around the world for decades, might have been getting more credit than it deserves. Many scientists have long relied on Bunsen burners to decontaminate airspace and surfaces in
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