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Researcher careers under the microscope: salary satisfaction and COVID impacts

2021/11/24
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The Nature salary and satisfaction survey reveals researchers' outlook, and NASA’s test of planetary defences.

**In this episode:**

00:45 Salary and satisfaction survey

Like all aspects of life, scientific careers have been impacted by the pandemic. To get an insight into how researchers are feeling, Nature has conducted a salary and satisfaction survey. We hear from some of the respondents.

*Careers Feature: *Stagnating salaries present hurdles to career satisfaction)

09:07 Research Highlights

The physics of a finger snap, and the surprisingly strong silk of jumping spiders.

*Research Highlight: *It’s a snap: the friction-based physics behind a common gesture)

*Research Highlight: *High-speed spinning yields some of the toughest spider silk ever found)

11:23 Briefing Chat

We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, the plans to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid, and how baby formula is changing to better resemble breast milk.

*Nature News: *NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid in first planetary-defence test)

*Chemistry World: *The science of breast milk and baby formula)

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