Nature News highlights: 10 January 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     10 January 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Nature Outlook: Traditional Asian Medicine Using scientific techniques to investigate the claims of traditional medicine as practised in countries such as China and Japan can help sort effective treatments from unfounded superstitions. Access the Outlook free online for six months. Produced with support from: Saishunkan Pharmaceutical               • Featured               Special: 2011 Review of the Year ▶       For science - as for politics and economics - 2011 was a year of upheaval whose effects will reverberate for decades. Relive the key events of the year with Nature's interactive timeline and roundup. Find out which ten people Nature thinks had the biggest impact in science this year. And read the most popular articles of the year and our editors' picks. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Modified mosquitoes set to quash dengue fever ▶ 10 January 2012     Wolbachia infection expected to halt virus transmission in Australian trial. Read More ▶             Telomere length in birds predicts longevity ▶ 09 January 2012     Young zebra finch telomeres serve as a marker for lifespan. Read More ▶             Hungry plant traps worms underground ▶ 09 January 2012     Hidden feeding strategy suggests carnivory is more common than was thought. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Indian science in need of overhaul ▶ 06 January 2012     Advisory council calls for 'warlike' effort to boost research. Read More ▶             Mathematician claims breakthrough in Sudoku puzzle ▶ 06 January 2012     Puzzles must have at least 17 clues to have a valid solution. Read More ▶             Thawing permafrost reduces river runoff ▶ 06 January 2012     China's Yangtze River is receiving less water as climate warms. Read More ▶             Return of the super ants ▶ 05 January 2012     Hidden ancestry gives Pheidole ants potential to develop into huge-headed fighters. Read More ▶             Nanoscale wires defy quantum predictions ▶ 05 January 2012     Atomic electrical components conduct just like conventional wires, giving a new lease of life to Moore's law. Read More ▶             Paper denying HIV-AIDS link secures publication ▶ 05 January 2012     Work by infamous AIDS contrarian passes peer review. Read More ▶             Failed herpes vaccine puzzles virologists ▶ 04 January 2012     Researchers go back to basics in search for new approach to overcoming genital herpes. Read More ▶             Monkey vaccine hints at how to stop HIV ▶ 04 January 2012     Study could help researchers developing a human vaccine. Read More ▶             Leaping lizards! Jurassic Park got it right ▶ 04 January 2012     Velociraptor adjusted the angle of its tail to stay stable when jumping. Read More ▶             Kepler's surprise: The sounds of the stars ▶ 04 January 2012     Data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have revolutionized the search for planets outside the Solar System ? and are now doing the same for asteroseismology. Read More ▶             Frontier experiments: Tough science ▶ 04 January 2012     Five experiments as hard as finding the Higgs. Read More ▶             Survey tunes in to dark energy ▶ 04 January 2012     Sonic yardstick offers a measure of Universe's expansion. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Extinct Galapagos tortoise may just be hiding Revised rules for botanical taxonomy take effect Pharma giants buy up hepatitis C hopefuls Resurrecting extinct proteins shows how a machine evolves Debate over role of Eppstein-Barr virus in MS reinvigorated Mathematician claims breakthrough in Sudoku puzzle Pacific Biosciences gets sued - and that's just business as usual 'Zombie' fly parasite killing honeybees Wildfires threaten Patagonia's biodiversity Monsanto's transgenic drought tolerant maize approved more...                           NEW PODCAST NOW AVAILABLE The Remarkable and Mysterious Wound-Healing Process of the Bottlenose Dolphin Join presenter Corinna Wu as she speaks to Dr. Michael Zasloff, professor of surgery and pediatrics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, about the Wound-Healing Process of the Bottlenose Dolphin. 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