More efficient and ‘gentle’ gene therapy technology wins Nature’s Spinoff Prize 2024
London | Mainz | Darmstadt, 18 July 2024
Trince Bio, a spinoff from The University of Ghent, Belgium, has won this year’s Spinoff Prize for its groundbreaking technology that can improve the quality of immune cells for cancer treatment
South Korea's role in research and innovation explored in latest Nature Index
Seoul | London, August 21, 2024
The Nature Index 2024 South Korea supplement highlights the challenges that the country is facing in science and investment, including in research output and gender disparity - with only 23% of the research workforce being female, there is a major growth opportunity for the country to cement its place as leader in science.
Springer Nature launches AskAdis: An AI-powered conversational interface for Pharma sector
London | Berlin | New York 17th June 2024
Publisher launches AI-powered conversational interface for Pharma sector.
Nature Index shows greater emergence of Asian research institutes and steady decline in Western research predominance
London |Berlin |New Delhi | New York, 18 June 2024
The Nature Index Research Leaders 2024 released today (previously the Nature Index Annual Tables) shows the rapid progress India has made in research output, with the country seeing a higher percentage growth in contributions to Index journals than China.
Seegene and Springer Nature announce Strategic Alliance
Seoul | London | Berlin | New York, 16 May 2024
The new alliance will see the two companies use their joint expertise and knowledge to support researchers across the global scientific community to speed up PCR diagnostic testing of important but various disease areas.
Barnacle-inspired ‘duct tape for surgery’ wins Nature’s Spinoff Prize 2023
London | New York | Darmstadt, 23 June 2023
SanaHeal, a spinout from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, has won this year’s Spinoff Prize for its bioglue breakthrough that offers hope for wound healing and haemorrhage control.
The State of Open Data report 2023: Support for researchers still lacking
London | Berlin | New York, 14 November 2023
Surveying over 6000 researchers worldwide, the report from Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature provides evidence of the persisting challenges associated with open data sharing
Nature announces support for authors from over 70 countries to publish open access
London | Berlin | New York, 9 January 2023
Authors from low-income and lower-middle income countries to be able to publish for free in Nature and the Nature research journals.
New Nature Index data shows China on top for natural sciences as US leads on health sciences research
London | Berlin | Sydney, 15 June 2023
For the second year running, China sees the largest increase in research output among top-ten countries. The Nature Index Annual Tables reveal the institutions that have helped China surpass the United States as the leading country in the natural sciences.
Springer Nature and authors successfully use generative AI to publish academic book
London | Berlin | New York, 18 October 2023
Experiment shows great potential for saving authors' time, but highlights importance of human guidance.