Nature - Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.

Nature - Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.

Nature - Countries have reported some five million COVID-19 deaths in two years, but global excess deaths are estimated at double or even quadruple that figure.

Two researchers. Three years. One pandemic.

Nature - Influenza, polio and more have shown that infections can change lives even decades later. Why the complacency over possible long-term effects of COVID-19?

Nature - Catalogue of billions of phrases from 107 million papers could ease computerized searching of the literature.

Nature - Concerns over waning immunity and SARS-CoV-2 variants have convinced some countries to deploy extra vaccine doses — but it’s not clear to scientists whether most people need them.

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

Nature - How epidemiologists rushed to model the coronavirus pandemic.

The comments come as more than 100 scientists sign a letter describing Britain’s strategy as a ‘dangerous and unethical experiment'

Nature - Genetic variants that are linked to immune signalling, mucus production and other functions increase the risk of critical COVID-19.

Concern continues over whether government’s virus pledges stand up to scrutiny

Nature - Microbial molecules from soil, seawater and human bodies are among the planet’s least understood.

Nature - Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading coronavirus variant poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.

Nature - Technique pushes the instruments to beat the resolving power of multi-million-dollar machines.

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

Nature - Some publishers say they are battling industrialized cheating. A Nature analysis examines the ‘paper mill’ problem — and how editors are trying to cope.

Nature - Researchers are finally uncovering the truth about glycans — the sugar-based chains that coat cells and decorate many proteins.

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Nature - An explosion of skeletal editing methods to insert, delete or swap individual atoms in molecular backbones could accelerate drug discovery.

Nature - Search-engine co-founder Anurag Acharya explains why it now tells authors when their papers should be made free to read.

Nature - Rebuke against Russian science grows as the deadly conflict enters its sixth day.

Nature - The quantum computer revolution could break encryption — but more-secure algorithms can safeguard privacy.

Nature - The science is immature and a multi-purpose quantum computer doesn’t yet exist. But that isn’t stopping investors pouring cash into quantum start-ups.

Nature - Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.

Nature - The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering data that will help scientists better understand stars.

Nature - Researchers are building a human ‘pangenome’ that would represent the entirety of human genetic variation. But not everyone is ready to sign on.

Nature - Sensitive studies in China were intended to pinpoint the source of the pandemic virus.

This quality improvement study evaluates the ability of GPT-4 Advanced Data Analysis to create a fake data set that can be used for the purpose of scientific research.

Nature - A European agency is considering sweeping restrictions on fluorinated chemicals used in jet engines, electric cars, refrigeration systems, semiconductors and many consumer products.

We stand by our data. We just won't share it or believe that you replicated our study.

Nature - A quarter of medical researchers involved in clinical trials in Australia did not declare funding from pharmaceutical companies.

Nature - The highly transmissible variant emerged with a host of unusual mutations. Now scientists are trying to work out how it evolved.

Nature - But some experts say author Shinichi Mochizuki failed to fix fatal flaw in solution of major arithmetic problem.

Nature - The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others.

Nature - Hundreds of junk-science papers have been retracted from reputable journals after fraudsters used ‘special issues’ to manipulate the publication process. And the problem is growing.

Nature - David Bimler, also known as Smut Clyde, scours the scientific literature for bogus articles.

Nature - To thwart publishing rackets that undermine scholars and scholarly publishing, legitimate journals should show their workings.

Nature - A guide to how China, the EU and the US are reining in artificial intelligence.

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Nature - Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Researchers are figuring out what time they will keep.