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How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril

Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.

news | 24 Apr 2025

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- Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky
  
  With the world set to blow past its temperature targets, efforts are growing to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
  
  news feature | 23 Apr 2025
- China overtakes the United States in cancer research output
  
  China takes pole position in cancer-related research in the Nature Index, with a massive jump in output.
  
  nature index | 23 Apr 2025
- An origami design for metamaterial robots
  
  Bendy, twisty and collapsable origami towers could make temperature controlling panels, or, dancing robots.
  
  nature video | 23 Apr 2025
- Cancer vaccine momentum builds, but US funding cuts raise concerns
  
  Vaccine scepticism could undermine important progress in cancer research.
  
  nature index | 23 Apr 2025

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- Kidney disease is a worldwide killer. Treat it that way
  
  The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease.
  
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- Sexual harassment thrives in silence, even in gender-equality hotspots
  
  ‘There are no model countries’ when it comes to creating environments that encourage victims of sexual harassment to come forward, shows a study of one Swedish university.
  
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- Why politicians manipulate statistics — and what to do about it
  
  Understanding the playbook that those in power use to twist numbers, and how they make others complicit, is only becoming more important in the post-truth world.
  
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