Nature News highlights: 20 December 2011

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     20 December 2011       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                   • Featured               Climate deal in Durban ▶       The nations of the world reached a deal of sorts at the Durban meeting yesterday. But what exactly is "an agreed outcome with legal force"? Read Nature's coverage of the dramatic agreement and our online collection on the Durban summit to find out more. Read More ▶                           Nature Reviews Genetics POSTER - Tools for studying and using small RNAs: from pathways to functions to therapies Authors: Kenneth Chang and Gregory J. Hannon November 2011 Access the Poster FREE online! www.nature.com/nrg/posters/small-rna COMING SOON: RNA interference animation Produced with support from Thermo Scientific               • Latest News               India to cut out animal dissection ▶ 20 December 2011     University funding body recommends a phase-out, but gives no final date. Read More ▶             Permafrost science heats up in the United States ▶ 19 December 2011     Programme will examine effect of Arctic warming on frozen soils. Read More ▶             Australian science minister demoted ▶ 19 December 2011     Outgoing Kim Carr hailed as "one of the best". Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Features of the year ▶ 19 December 2011     The best of our longer reads as selected by our editors. Read More ▶             Video animation: RNA interference ▶ 16 December 2011     A video explaining RNA interference from Nature Reviews Genetics. Read More ▶             Particle physics is at a turning point ▶ 16 December 2011     The discovery of the Higgs boson will complete the standard model - but it could also point the way to a deeper understanding, says Gordon Kane. Read More ▶             Young researchers lose out in European funding programme ▶ 16 December 2011     Marie Curie grants get smaller slice of the pie in Horizon 2020. Read More ▶             Fukushima reaches cold shutdown ▶ 16 December 2011     But milestone is more symbolic than real. Read More ▶             News: Readers' choice ▶ 16 December 2011     The most read news stories of 2011. Read More ▶             US chimpanzee research to be curtailed ▶ 16 December 2011     Most biomedical research on chimpanzees deemed 'unnecessary'. Read More ▶             Tangled relationships unpicked ▶ 15 December 2011     A statistical method discovers hidden correlations in complex data. Read More ▶             How bacteria break a magnet ▶ 15 December 2011     A magnetosensing bacterium bends its internal magnet to weaken it before cell division. Read More ▶             Mining molecular gastronomy ▶ 15 December 2011     East Asian cuisine doesn't use matching flavour compounds, unlike North American recipes. Read More ▶             US bioethics panel urges stronger protections for human subjects ▶ 15 December 2011     Present regulations are adequate but not optimal, report says. Read More ▶             Early observations identify star at heart of nearby supernova ▶ 14 December 2011     Teams confirm that explosion started with a white dwarf. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Hubble repairman to lead NASA science division Croatia's largest research institute hit by tax evasion charges Conservationists decry science gap in EU fish quotas Amazon forest code vote delayed Video animation: RNA interference The age of Neanderthal personal genomics begins Fukushima reaches cold shutdown US chimpanzee research to be curtailed US biomedical and energy budgets inch toward resolution Chronic fatigue syndrome scientist finds a temporary home more...                           Nature Outlook: Influenza Our centuries-old battle against influenza occasionally erupts into mass death - the 1918 pandemic alone killed at least 50 million people. Can new research offer hope for defeating this pathogen for good? Access the Outlook free online for six months. Produced with support from: Sanofi Pasteur, Crucell, Baxter                     COMING SOON! 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