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Focal Point on Sustainable Fruit and Functional Components in China
China is one of the world’s major producers of fruit. Its food and agricultural scientists are leading a drive to develop sustainable methods to produce and process fruit.
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Working Scientist career profiles
These articles profile individual scientists with unusual career histories, achievements, skills or outside interests.
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Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC)
MoTrPAC is a national research consortium designed to discover and characterize the molecular map that underlies the effects of physical activity in humans.
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Lithuania
The Baltic country marks 20 years of European Union membership this year with a push to retain homegrown talent, persuade diaspora scientists to return, and attract researchers from abroad, lured by a collaborative research culture.
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Sex and gender in science
Fraught societal debates, particularly surrounding gender identity, are raising new questions about how to best take account of sex and gender in research, both in human health and elsewhere – even as scientists are increasingly recognizing that they must move beyond paradigms based on extrapolating findings from men or male animals.
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Switzerland
Switzerland has enjoyed a warm relationship with the rest of Europe for decades – but how has that influenced the research done in the country?
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All of Us
To fully understand human health and allow everyone access to advances in biomedicine, research programmes must include participants from diverse backgrounds.
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The Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) Big Science Program: Geoscientists vote on most pressing global challenges
From ecosystem change to natural hazards, studies of the fundamentals of the planet we live on have never been so important.
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Constraints on mantle heterogeneity
Understanding the heterogeneities in Earth’s mantle, including their origin, structure, and variability, is crucial for comprehending the long-term history of internal changes that have shaped our planet.
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A photographic exhibition of scientists at work
What does a scientist do, where do they work, and what do they look like? Nature marked its 150th anniversary in 2018 by introducing a weekly photo essay profiling a scientist in their workplace. Since then, the Where I Work section has showcased more than 200 scientists from more than 70 countries at work in labs, during fieldwork, running companies, funding agencies, treating patients and teaching children. The photographs, now exhibited in King’s Cross, London, depict and celebrate the diversity of science and scientists.
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Latin American women in science and technology
Female scientists in Latin America are forming alliances nationally and internationally to address systemic challenges faced by women in science across the world, but also those that are specific to their region.
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