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Research in Australia will face drastic cuts in funding and jobs as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic shut-downs, according to a report by organizations representing the country's researchers and academia.https://go.nature.com/2yGMnkT 

World View: It is time to adopt a ‘red team’ approach in science that integrates criticism into each step of the research process, writes @lakens. “A scientific claim is as reliable as only the most severe criticism it has been able to withstand.”https://go.nature.com/35PcJx2 

People who are not white face a substantially higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than do white people, and pre-existing health conditions and socioeconomic factors explain only a small part of the higher risk. See the latest COVID-19 research news here.https://go.nature.com/2QZlT3T 

Coronavirus diaries: This week, @DrTregoning shares all the things he doesn’t miss while being at home, including commuting, experiments that don’t work, and wearing shoes.https://go.nature.com/3coAAG9 

Studies suggest blood clots appear in 20% to 30% of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Scientists have a few hypotheses to explain the phenomenon, and they are just beginning to launch studies. But they are also scrambling to test clot-curbing medications.https://go.nature.com/2LkURAQ 

News & Views: Highly charged ions could form the basis of the next generation of ultra-precise clocks, using electronic transitions in the ions as the “pendulum.” An ingenious method for characterizing such transitions is reported in Nature.https://go.nature.com/3fDFSjq 

Two experiments have demonstrated a technique that will help existing gravitational-wave detectors to double their sensitivity. #ResearchHighlighthttps://go.nature.com/3be200k 

Jyoti Mishra knew how important it was to set up an attractive and comprehensive website as she set up an independent lab and hired staff. She describes her process in setting up the site.https://go.nature.com/3cimmqz 

The US drug regulator has granted its first emergency-use approval for a new coronavirus test that takes advantage of the gene-editing technology CRISPR.https://go.nature.com/2xPfRwe 

News & Views: An elusive type of atom known as pionic helium has been directly excited by laser light for the first time. The work, published in Nature, establishes a promising experimental platform for probing fundamental physics.https://go.nature.com/2WeJe4q 

News & Views: An analysis of faecal samples published in Nature reveals that obese people who take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have a ‘healthier’ community of gut microorganisms than would be expected.https://go.nature.com/2WgZBh9 

Genetic testing for SARS-CoV-2 has been hampered, in part, by shortages of the solutions used to store sampling swabs and extract viral RNA from them. A team developed a procedure for detecting viral RNA in swabs without the highly sought solutions.https://go.nature.com/3bWPYZM 

Mario Livio argues in “Galileo and the Science Deniers” that charges of heresy that Galileo faced for his scientific claims in the seventeenth century have their counterparts in science deniers’ condemnations today. Read @alison_c_abbott’s book review.https://go.nature.com/35JaXxj 

The Tully Monster, an ancient creature at the top of the scale of weirdness, has defied scientists’ attempts to categorize it for more than half a century. But a new analysis of the molecules in its fossils suggests it was a vertebrate. #ResearchHighlighthttps://go.nature.com/2La9G91