Nature News highlights: 11 October 2011

11 October 2011       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Strands of life - 5 short films on physiology and medicine Recorded at the 2011 Meeting of Nobel Laureates, the films capture conversations between young researchers and Nobel prizewinning scientists. Watch last week's release "A life in science" featuring Elizabeth Blackburn. Supported by Mars, Incorporated and published weekly from Sept 15th-Oct 13th               • Featured               News: The 2011 Nobel Prizes ▶       The 2011 Nobel Prizes have been awarded. The prize in medicine or physiology went to Ralph Steinman, Jules Hoffmann and Bruce Beutler for their work on the immune system, though Steinman died three days before the announcement. The prize in physics went to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess for their discovery that the expansion of the univerise is accelerating. The prize in chemistry went to Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals. Read More ▶                 • Latest News               Persistence pays off for crystal chemist  ▶ 10 October 2011     Discovery of mosaic material wins Nobel prize. Read More ▶                   SuperB particle-accelerator project launches  ▶ 10 October 2011     Funding uncertainty could delay high-speed Italian development. Read More ▶                   Physicist languishes in French prison  ▶ 07 October 2011     Two years after his arrest over allegations of terrorism, researcher still awaits trial. Read More ▶                     • More Stories               MERMAIDs detect distant earthquakes ▶ 07 October 2011     Free-floating observatories record seismic waves to help study Earth's interior. Read More ▶                   Contraceptive risk of HIV long suspected ▶ 07 October 2011     Animal research showed 15 years ago that progesterone contraceptives could increase infections. Read More ▶                   India's nuclear future put on hold ▶ 06 October 2011     Safety fears derail plan to import reactors. Read More ▶                   Integrity issue follows fired researcher ▶ 05 October 2011     Paper linking chronic fatigue syndrome to a virus suffers another blow as duplicate figures surface. Read More ▶                   Faster-than-light neutrinos face time trial ▶ 05 October 2011     Did gravity mess with the clocks that measured particles breaking cosmic speed limit? Read More ▶                   Monkey brains 'feel' virtual objects ▶ 05 October 2011     Macaques use a brain-controlled virtual hand to identify artificial texture of objects. Read More ▶                   Cloned human embryo makes working stem cells ▶ 05 October 2011     Researchers begin to identify past problems with cloning technique. Read More ▶                   Comets take pole position as water bearers ▶ 05 October 2011     Matching chemical signatures indicate that Kuiper comets brought water to Earth. Read More ▶                     • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Give your eggs to science, get paid, suggests new report Megavirus claims 'biggest genome' crown Spain's top research centres get cash infusion Japan begins thyroid screening for Fukushima children The Scientist shutters after 25 years Evidence is against PSA testing - but will that change anything? Murky dealings abound in Balkan academia Nature Podcast Extra: Futures How to build a Soyuz Long-serving Earth observation sensor conks out more...                         Asia Materials, presenting monthly reviews by leading materials researchers from the Asia-Pacific region, will soon be transformed into an open access research journal in January 2012. Find out more. 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