Nature - 2019.08.29

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Paying the price Universities must see that inadequate support of early-career researchers has consequences. L etters from resea ...

E arlier this month, Ohio became the latest of several state and local governments in the United States to stop law-enforcement ...

DALE OMORI/CLEVELAND MUS. NAT. HIST. Scientists have discovered a 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull (pictured) in Ethiopia that ...

GIULIO ORIGLIA/GETTY SOURCE: INPEThe Brazilian Amazon is burning, and the world is taking notice. So far this year, more than 80 ...

PUBLISHING New database exposes extreme cases of self-citation p. FUNDING Budget cuts in Brazil threaten 80, science scholarship ...

572 | NATURE | VOL 572 | 29 AUGUST 2019 NEWS IN FOCUS going to lead to a high-profile publication, he says. “Perhaps he’s not ve ...

Researchers running a genetic-sequencing project in the United States aim to recruit one million people. BY JONATHAN LAMBERT A U ...

574 | NATURE | VOL 572 | 29 AUGUST 2019 NEWS IN FOCUS BY EWEN CALLAWAY I s there anything CRISPR can’t do? Scientists have wield ...

29 AUGUST 2019 | VOL 572 | NATURE | 575 IN FOCUS NEWS BY RODRIGO DE OLIVEIRA ANDRADE B razil’s main science-funding agency will ...

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SELF-CITATIONS SELF-CITATIONS T he world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bu ...

named on a list of 6,000 “world-class researchers selected for their excep- tional research performance” produced by Clarivate A ...

CONSERVATION Tracking tigers with motion sensors sees success in India p. PSYCHIATRY Mouse swimming test is not a good proxy for ...

into dust, future opportunities for using them to understand our past are lost. We recognize the enormous potential of ancient D ...

This ‘question-led’ approach would enable people to consider the trade-off between collecting ancient DNA data today and waiting ...

During the Second World War, Cade was interred for more than three years in the notorious Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Chang ...

How to Be a Dictator Frank Dikötter BloomsBury (2019) For this magisterial study on the misuse of power, historian Frank Dikötte ...

Correspondence Ditch mouse swim test for depression Having practised psychiatry for 24  years, I was pleased to see that the val ...

FRANZ KREUPL F or many decades, progress in electronics has been driven by a gradual reduction in the size of silicon transistor ...