Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the unintentional pickup of human genetic information raises ethical questions.
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Here’s what Nigeria’s new president should do to elevate science in the country.
Researchers are key to Canada’s capacity to create a high-tech economy, build the biomedical sector and seed entrepreneurial activity, but they can’t do it without research funding.
Scientists use biologging devices to track animal behaviour – here are four times where it has improved our understanding of nature.
If Twitter were to go dark, with it would go a valuable source of data as well as a means of sharing information relied on by activists, journalists, public health officials and scientists.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals set a target date of 2030. To meet that deadline, international collaboration and funding is required.
Genetic research is big business and has yielded life-saving treatments. But experts are warning of caution about ‘gain of function’ research that has the pandemic potential.
Journals, museum collections and other historical sources can provide valuable data for modern ecological studies. But just because a source is old doesn’t make it useful.
Nature’s recent efforts to redefine the ethical responsibilities of scientists leave a lot to be desired.
Nonhuman primates like rhesus monkeys share certain characteristics with people that may make them better study subjects than mice for research on neurodegenerative diseases.
Windermere has seen extensive algal blooms, attracting attention over its ecological consequences. But this is nothing new.
A new screening tool to help study reviewers identify what’s fake or shoddy in research may be on the horizon. And everyday people can apply some of the same critical analysis tools.
The key to supporting science innovation is funding and shaping it at its earliest stages, while innovative ventures are still housed within universities — and even before the ventures are founded.
Authors writing for Nature journals will also need to separate sex and gender data, so it can’t just be lumped in with other results.
There remains a crucial need for animal models to understand health and disease and to develop medicines.
Scientists can be asked to help find solutions during disasters. A study of how archaeologists worked on the problem of looting during the Syrian war offers lessons for science done during crisis.
One of the most famous stats in the climate debate is the 97% of scientists who endorse the consensus on human-induced global heating. Ahead of the Glasgow summit, that figure has climbed even higher.
Preprints are scientific papers made available before being published in a peer-reviewed journal. The Australian Research Council has banned researchers from citing them in grant applications.
New research shows gene name autocorrection remains a problem for genomics articles. Here’s why it’s a wake up call for research reproducibility.
A biomedical engineer explains the basic research that led to the discovery of insulin and its transformation into a lifesaving treatment for millions of people with diabetes.
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Science and Consultant, Vice Principal for Research and Graduate Education, University of Pretoria
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Professor, The Ohio State University
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Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor, History & Philosophy of Science program, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Chronobiology, National Institute for Medical Research
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Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
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Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck, University of London; Honorary Associate Professor, UCL
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
