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Using People's Feelings of Happiness to Make Better Policy Decisions?

Using People's Feelings of Happiness to Make Better Policy Decisions?

How we spend our time directly impacts how satisfied we are with our lives, and understanding the activities that bolster our wellbeing can help policymakers make better decisions when allocating resources. Research is helping them do just that.

Viewpoint: The European Research Area Needs a Reboot

Viewpoint: The European Research Area Needs a Reboot

"Way too many!" This was the reaction of many in the European Research Area (ERA) Forum when over 40 new actions were pitched for the 2025 - 2027 policy agenda - adding to the 20 actions previously agreed for the 2022 - 2024 agenda.

Code Sharing in the Spotlight

Code Sharing in the Spotlight

The Year of Open Science has highlighted the importance of sharing the code associated with peer-reviewed manuscripts. We at Nature Computational Science provide support - via policies and implementations within our submission system - to facilitate this task.

Why We Swapped PhD Research for Secondary-school Teaching

Why We Swapped PhD Research for Secondary-school Teaching

Students value being taught by real-life scientists with lived experience of life in the lab, say researchers who switched career.

How to Navigate the Challenges of Corporate-academia Research Partnerships

How to Navigate the Challenges of Corporate-academia Research Partnerships

Many research projects draw on sources of funding from the corporate world. Fola Adeleke discusses the challenges inherent to this kind of research and outlines three key considerations for researchers engaging with corporate partners.  

Xi-Biden Summit Resumes Research and Technology Collaboration on Climate

Xi-Biden Summit Resumes Research and Technology Collaboration on Climate

Washington and Beijing have resumed a raft of environment-related collaboration measures, including promises of new support for Chinese and American universities to work together on recycling and resource efficiency.

'Violent Colonialist' Magellan is Unfit to Keep His Place in the Night Sky, Say Astronomers

'Violent Colonialist' Magellan is Unfit to Keep His Place in the Night Sky, Say Astronomers

Indigenous peoples already had their own names for the galaxies named after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer.

NIH Scientific Integrity Plan is Fundamentally Flawed, Says Public Employee Group

NIH Scientific Integrity Plan is Fundamentally Flawed, Says Public Employee Group

A scientific integrity plan recently proposed by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is “fundamentally flawed,” according to the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In comments filed on Nov. 6 and subsequently summarized in a statement, the advocacy group says that the draft policy “lacks meaningful protections for scientists and research.”

Protect the ‘Right to Science’ for People and the Planet

Protect the ‘Right to Science’ for People and the Planet

Opinion: Upholding human rights can ensure that environmental policy is driven by facts and evidence, not denialism, greed and profit.

Piloting the WHO Global Guidance Framework for the Responsible Use of the Life Science in Uganda

Piloting the WHO Global Guidance Framework for the Responsible Use of the Life Science in Uganda

WHO published in 2022 the Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences: mitigating biorisks and governing dual-use research (the framework), which calls on Member States and relevant stakeholders to mitigate biorisks and safely govern dual-use research (DUR) while harnessing the power of life sciences for the global health.

Advancing Science and Freedom During Wartime

Advancing Science and Freedom During Wartime

The success of Kyiv's first international astrobiology scientific conference has affirmed the enormous scientific potential and future for Ukraine's space sciences.