Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Christine Friis Baker ... Jens Peter Andersen
A preregistered survey experiment spanning six disciplines has found weak evidence of bias in favour of authors from high-status countries and institutions.
A more balanced distribution of NIH grant funding among investigators would strengthen the diversity of the research enterprise, increase the likelihood of scientific breakthroughs, and lead to a greater return on taxpayers' investments.
Marta Strecker Shocket, Sadie J Ryan, Erin A Mordecai
Accounting for nonlinear responses to temperature is critical for accurately predicting how Ross River virus and other mosquito-borne diseases will respond to climate change and detecting the effects of temperature on disease transmission.
Amanda J Lea, Christopher M Vockley ... Jenny Tung
mSTARR-seq identifies regions of the genome where DNA methylation causally impacts gene expression, providing a map of which epigenetic marks may influence trait variation.
When the acquisition of reward becomes effortful, marmosets choose to work longer, delaying their harvest, but slow their movements, reducing energy consumption.
Jing Jun Wong, Alessandro Bongioanni ... Bolton KH Chau
Computational modelling reveals variations in people’s preferences towards integrating choice attributes using an additive or multiplicative approach, which affected whether the presence of valuable distractors facilitate or impair decision making.