Nature - USA (2020-05-14)

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As economies are revived, it is time rebuild them in a way that takes nature’s true value into account.” in the form of an inter ...

It’s important to move quickly to larger trials that have a greater chance of showing what really works.” in China subsided, lea ...

By Daniël Lakens Pandemic researchers — recruit your own best critics To guard against rushed and sloppy science, build pressure ...

US APPROVES FIRST CRISPR TEST FOR CORONAVIRUS The US drug regulator has granted its first emergency-use approval for a new coron ...

By Smriti Mallapaty T he role of children in spreading the coronavirus has been a key question since the early days of the pande ...

likely facilitate transmission, as respiratory viruses are known to circulate in schools and day cares.” He says good surveillan ...

By Amy Maxmen R esearchers are beginning to test homeless individuals in the United States for the virus that causes COVID-19, a ...

PANDEMIC PUBLISHING The major preprint servers have posted thousands of studies related to the coronavirus since the outbreak be ...

leadership team. On bioRxiv, this is usually completed in 48 hours. On medRxiv, papers are scrutinized more closely because they ...

SEEING DOUBLE Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing. ...

look at the Belgian message. Attached are images of western blots — the results of a common test to detect proteins in biologica ...

images across millions of papers, although the programs will probably always need human verification. “I’m enjoying it so much t ...

investigating the papers, many of which are authored by doctors in Chinese hospitals, and some retractions are already being pre ...

Many of these were among cases that had been raised by her,” says Heber. The team is still working through Bik’s original tips, ...

G eologists think they know the basics of Earth’s history. Liquid water has flowed on the planet for 4 billion years^1. Tiny amo ...

formed during different stages of a rock’s long geological history. The consequences for understanding past climates can be dram ...

for such collections. Initiatives for archiving materials in other fields could serve as models. These include the Global Genome ...

Our knowledge of the stars is based almost exclusively on the study of their light. But the light that reaches us originates fro ...

than that of our Sun, but their inner struc- ture is very different. They have long been known to have complicated, low-amplitud ...