All Strange Things About India and world
In the past two decades, China has made big advances in scientific research, and its rise to the top of the 2025 Nature Index tables highlights this shift (see go.nature.com/45vf99n).…
The US National Institutes of Health, based in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research.Credit: Grandbrothers/Alamy In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
Protesters rally in New York City against the Trump administration’s cuts to state and federal funding for scientific research and education.Credit: Adam Gray/Bloomberg/Getty In mid-April, Maryrose Weatherton, a biologist at…
I knew funding cuts would come to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ — a constellation of five programmes that support deaf students from secondary school to postdoctoral research, all based in Rochester,…
At many leading study destinations in Western countries, the climate for international students is cooling. In the United Kingdom, most students are now barred from bringing family members. Canada has…
Government agencies subscribe to academic journals to help their staff members to evaluate research projects for funding and to conduct their own studies.Credit: Getty The administration of US President Donald…
It has been difficult to gather reliable estimates of deaths during the war in Gaza.Credit: Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Almost 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and…
Grant reviewers at the US National Institutes of Health are still following screening guidelines that a judge declared illegal.Credit: Getty The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet…
Mary Rice was among hundreds of scientists at Harvard University who watched helplessly as millions of dollars in research funds disappeared in an instant in mid-May. Two of the pulmonologist’s…
Childhood vaccines used in the United States have not contained the preservative thimerosal for decades. Credit: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters Vaccine advisers appointed by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr have…