I won three competitive grants in a row. Here’s how I learnt what to do
Jingming Cai says he deliberately shaped his PhD’s focus to prepare for future applicationsCredit: Cavan Images/Getty After completing my PhD
Solving aviation’s climate-action conundrum
Nature, Published online: 21 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02129-1 A decision-making tool for the aviation sector helps to assess the likelihood of
five PhD students reveal realigned priorities in wake of COVID and cuts
Carys Herbert inspects a telescope used in citizen-science projects at the University of Kent’s Beacon Observatory in Canterbury, UK —
Why the global economy is more uncertain than ever, and what to do about it
Financial models can fail when unprecedented events hit.Credit: Getty Amid wars, political earthquakes, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and
Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review
In some cases, scientists use AI models to evaluate manuscripts or help draft peer-review reports.Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Researchers
Lab drowning in paperwork? Hire an in-house writer
A technical writer can complete grant applications, reports and manuscripts, freeing up time for a principal investigator to do more
China pours money into brain chips that give paralysed people more control
China has medical infrastructure and large population to test the efficacy of brain implants.Credit: Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua/Alamy A deep brain device
Academic language has become a proxy for European culture wars
International students reacted positively when the University of Tartu introduced compulsory Estonian-language courses for English-language master’s programmes — in contrast
I pioneered my country’s newborn health-screening programme
“Standing by this instrument in my laboratory, I am transported back three decades, when I launched a pilot study that
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
It has been difficult to gather reliable estimates of deaths during the war in Gaza.Credit: Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty