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How rich is too rich?

Where should society draw the line on extreme wealth? A fresh account sets out the logic and suggests how to redress inequality.

Peter Higgs obituary: physicist who predicted boson that explains why particles have mass

Theoretical physicist saw his eponymous particle discovered after 48 years.

Start 2024 by asking: ‘Why do science?’

Step back from the usual lab-meeting format, and ask yourself and your colleagues why you all do what you do, say Mirko Treccani and Laura Vesch…

Is it too late to keep global warmingbelow 1.5 °C?The challenge in 7 charts

Chances are rapidly disappearing to limit Earth’s temperature rise to the globally agreed mark, but researchers say there are some positive sign…

How to train early-career scientists to weather failure

Workshops and training programmes tackle failure and how to recover from it.

A family affair: how scientist parents’ career paths can influence children’s choices

Early exposure to science inspired four researchers to pursue research careers.

Utilization trends for endoscopic ablation therapy and esophagectomy in Barrett’s esophagus from 2005 to 2019 - Scientific Reports

Guidelines have shifted to now recommend endoscopic eradication therapy for Barrett’s esophagus (BE) with low and high-grade dysplasia. Previous…

The fraught quest to account for sex in biology research

Funders and publishers are increasingly asking researchers to account for the role of sex in experiments — a requirement that’s contentious and…

The start-ups taking nanoneedles into the clinic - Nature Nanotechnology

Nanoneedle start-ups are traversing the biotech valley of death — from fundamental university research into commercial development in advanced t…

Phylogeography and genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy and Europe with newly characterized Italian genomes between February-June 2020 - Scientific Reports

The aims of this study were to characterize new SARS-CoV-2 genomes sampled all over Italy and to reconstruct the origin and the evolutionary dyn…

Portugal: female science leaders could speed up change

Letter to the Editor

Retrospective methodology to estimate daily infections from deaths (REMEDID) in COVID-19: the Spain case study - Scientific Reports

The number of new daily infections is one of the main parameters to understand the dynamics of an epidemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020…

Estimating COVID-19 mortality in Italy early in the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Communications

Estimates of COVID-19-related mortality are limited by incomplete testing. Here, the authors perform counterfactual analyses and estimate that t…

Academic institutions’ commitment to refugees - Nature Reviews Materials

Following the 2015 migration wave to Europe, numerous French academic institutions organized themselves to welcome refugee students and research…

Peripheral vasoreactivity in acute ischemic stroke with hemiplegia - Scientific Reports

The association between vasomotor tone of the peripheral arteries and cerebral hemisphere function has not been established. This study analyzed…

Purification of HCC-specific extracellular vesicles on nanosubstrates for early HCC detection by digital scoring - Nature Communications

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are present in circulation at relatively early stages of disease, providing potential opportunities for early cance…

How I managed my work and personal life as a sole parent during the pandemic

Staying connected with other single-parent academics through a Facebook group was one of four steps taken by Antica Culina to survive the lockdo…

Diagnosis and mortality prediction of sepsis via lysophosphatidylcholine 16:0 measured by MALDI-TOF MS - Scientific Reports

Sepsis remains a critical problem with high mortality worldwide, but there is still a lack of reliable biomarkers. We aimed to evaluate the seru…