Paris-Saclay University formed from a merger of several institutions.Credit: Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty The board of directors of Paris-Saclay University, one of Europe’s biggest research campuses, has failed to elect a president after three rounds of voting. The result reflects an ongoing row over the leadership and management structure of Paris-Saclay, which was formed by … Read more
Interactive therapeutic robot Paro keeps a resident company at a nursing home in Japan.Credit: Noriko Hayashi/Panos Pictures Clara Berridge, an ethicist at the University of Washington, Seattle, recalls a story told by a colleague to a group of health-care and social-work students. Nature Outlook: Robotics and artificial intelligence An older man in a nursing home … Read more
Climate change can cause anxiety — researchers need to work out when that requires specialist help.Credit: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Getty Nearly one billion people worldwide — including one in seven teenagers — have a mental disorder. A growing body of research suggests that climate change is worsening people’s mental health and emotional well-being. Acute heatwaves, droughts, floods … Read more
The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair it and have to discard it, the device will become e-waste, joining an alarmingly large mountain … Read more
An independent team could replicate select experiments in a paper before publication, to help catch errors and poor methodology.Credit: SolStock/Getty Could the replication crisis in scientific literature be addressed by having scientists independently attempt to reproduce their peers’ key experiments during the publication process? And would teams be incentivized to do so by having the … Read more
In a single day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 10,000 border crossings.On Thursday, people on social media were upset that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn’t answer Peter Doocy’s question about the situation at the border. During the day’s press conference, Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about recent data from U.S. Customs and … Read more