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How do you get your creative juices flowing after spending hours, days or months looking at a blank screen? Researchers share their advice.

Scientists deploy networking, collaboration and long-term thinking to win private donor dollars.

A major clinical study raised questions about one of the most celebrated cancer-screening procedures available, but a close look at the data tells a different story.

US institutions and states are revamping hiring practices in an attempt to increase transparency about past misconduct in academia.

Despite growing awareness that children and teenagers can get depressed, substantial gaps remain in diagnosis and treatment.

Presenting and networking at events can be daunting for researchers with a stammer or other speech disability. Here’s how colleagues can support them.

Preparing rice in a coffee machine can halve levels of the naturally occurring substance.

The biological basis for sex differences in autoimmune diseases are beginning to come into focus.

A growing understanding of consciousness could lead to fresh treatments for brain injuries and phobias. A growing understanding of consciousness could lead to fresh treatments for brain injuries and phobias.

Access to affordable birth control can improve the social and economic status of women and their communities, especially in low-income countries.

Health-care systems are rolling out artificial-intelligence tools for diagnosis and monitoring. But how reliable are the models?

How researchers think about migraine in young people is shifting, offering hope for better long-term management of the condition.

Programmes to catch cancers early are on the increase in low- and middle-income countries, but some face cultural and logistical challenges.

Experienced scientists reveal how to avoid application pitfalls to submit successful proposals.

As interest builds in the potential health benefits from the plant, accumulating evidence confirms that taking the drug also carries risks. As interest builds in the potential health benefits from the plant, accumulating evidence confirms that taking the drug also carries risks.

Researcher-parents must balance their children’s needs with work priorities while in the field. Researcher-parents must balance their children’s needs with work priorities while in the field.

Researchers are redefining twenty-first-century conferences at which delegates set the agenda.

Uneven access to health-care resources is complicating the drive to eliminate this viral infection.

Scientists are merging their life’s passions with their academic studies, and coming up with new fields in the process.

Each person’s skin carries a unique population of microbes that might help to protect skin from infection, or increase its vulnerability.

Lots of things can and will go wrong in the field, but there are ways to rescue the work and learn from your mishaps. Lots of things can and will go wrong in the field, but there are ways to rescue the work and learn from your mishaps.

Scepticism towards the idea that lifestyle choices can reduce the risk of dementia is waning. Scepticism towards the idea that lifestyle choices can reduce the risk of dementia is waning.

Mental illness can be devastating — but there are ways to fight it, say four researchers who have known those bleak times. Mental illness can be devastating — but there are ways to fight it, say four researchers who have known those bleak times.

It can be tricky to plan and carry on fieldwork when you’re pregnant, but there are ways to smooth the path.

How to balance a long-term illness and a research career.

This section offers news briefs relating to science as of February 4, 2013, including the launch of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule in October 2011, the computer model created by U.S. National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) scientists to determine the movement of aerosols around the globe, and a virtually indestructible ball called the One World Futbol created by California businessman Tim Jahnigen.

Despite the ubiquity of the Internet, innovation still happens mainly in hubs, where face-to-face contact matters more than ever.

Cavers, divers and climbers take their science to strange and wonderful places.

Four scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions share their conference conundrums and give advice on improving accessibility.

Knowing when to hand-hold and when to step back is crucial for helping early-career researchers.

Robin Bell studies ice sheets in sensitive polar regions to map the march of climate change.

The article presents a research on the health advantages and disadvantages on the intake of folic acid in New Zealand. Previous studies has proven that the intake of folic acid is efficient to prevent cancer which are being incorporated in the ready-to-eat cereals, and bread. The vitamin is recommended for conceiving mothers within the prescribed amount. However, too much intake of the wonder vitamin has been perceived to cause cancer to some people.