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"Involution," which refers to China's hyper-competitive work culture and crushing labor expectations, has gained traction with…
Morning Consult| September 29, 2023
Astrophysicists who captured an image of the Big Bang's afterglow—and confirmed the standard model of cosmology—won a US$3-million Breakthrough Prize on 3 December...Nature From ACM Careers | December 4, 2017
As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 28, 2017
A map showing how mobile-phone use might be restricted because of a giant radio telescope in South Africa has angered people who will live near the instrument—deepening...Nature From ACM Careers | November 20, 2017
Forty years ago, two papers1, 2 described the first tractable methods for determining the order of the chemical bases in stretches of DNA. Before these 1977 publications...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2017
There's a placard in Anne Wojcicki's office enshrining the attitude that nearly ran her company, 23andme, aground.
Nature From ACM Careers | October 11, 2017
Three physicists who had leading roles in the first direct detection of gravitational waves have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Nature From ACM Careers | October 3, 2017
The US mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, whose life spanned the tumultuous, technologically explosive twentieth century, is often called the...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 14, 2017
Seven years ago, a cover of The Economist showed Barack Obama, head down on a Louisiana beach in front of an oil rig—the picture of lonely despair.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2017
The Chinese government is going on the offensive against scientists who dupe journals by creating fraudulent reviews of submitted papers.
Nature From ACM Careers | June 20, 2017
In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...Nature From ACM Careers | June 6, 2017
Most research institutions are essentially collections of independent laboratories, each run by principal investigators who head a team of trainees.
Nature From ACM Careers | May 18, 2017
Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50...Nature From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2017