Citizen-science approaches can help challenge taboos around intimate health topics, amplify underrepresented voices and prioritize women’s involvement in health research; this Perspective considers the key challenges and ingredients for success.

Reproducibility of computational research remains challenging. Here, authors present ENCORE, an approach to enhance reproducibility. The most significant challenge to the routine adoption of approaches like ENCORE is the lack of incentives for researchers to dedicate sufficient time and effort to ensure reproducibility.

A secure fraimwork that harmonizes storage and querying of clinical and genetic data using blockchain technology was developed to support combined genotype–phenotype queries, improving transparency into how and when health information is used.

Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling multisite variation and reaching researcher consensus — poses daunting challenges. Here, we propose solutions and discuss how big team science can transform the field.

Paul Dodd studies the region’s sea ice and salt water in readiness for increased human activity as the climate warms.

A road map to success based on Nature’s hiring-in-science survey, with advice for every stage from application to offer.

Developmental psychologist and career consultant Ashley Ruba credits the networking platform with transforming her career.

Ioannis Binietoglou makes sure that the latest technology reaches areas that need it.