Nature News highlights: 06 March 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     06 March 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Cancer drug discovery and development services We offer experience in cytotoxicity and tumor xenograft testing, molecular imaging, 60 human-cell-line panel testing, in vivo evaluation of anticancer compounds and target validation for both in vitro systems and animal models. Learn more here.               • Featured               Special: Alan Turing at 100 ▶       Alan Turing, born a century ago this year, is best known for his wartime code-breaking and for inventing the 'Turing machine' – the concept at the heart of every computer today. But his legacy extends much further: He founded the field of artificial intelligence, proposed a theory of biological pattern formation, and speculated about the limits of computation in physics. In this collection of features and opinion pieces Nature celebrates the mind that, in a handful of papers over a tragically short lifetime, shaped many of the hottest fields in science today. Read More ▶                         Scientific Reports published the most downloaded paper on nature.com in December. Downloaded over 100,000 times and counting... Make your paper seen. Make your paper open. Submit to Scientific Reports.               • Latest News               A damming assessment of Mekong development ▶ 05 March 2012     Dams on tributaries worse for fish than those on the main river. Read More ▶             It's not just Fukushima: mass disaster evacuations challenge planners ▶ 05 March 2012     The Fukushima evacuation zone raises the issue of what would happen during an evacuation in heavily populated US metropolises during a nuclear meltdown. Read More ▶             Emissions from Asia put US cities over the ozone limit ▶ 05 March 2012     Satellite data could warn of incoming air pollution. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               The risks and benefits of publishing mutant flu studies ▶ 02 March 2012     Research describing two mutant strains of H5N1 avian influenza that spread between mammals is likely to be published in its entirety. Nature examines the controversial decision. Read More ▶             University clears psychiatrists of misconduct ▶ 02 March 2012     University of Pennsylvania says rules at time didn't prohibit  unacknowledged, company-paid writers. Read More ▶             US Navy welcomes two ships into research fleet ▶ 02 March 2012     Construction on 73-metre vessels set to begin later this year. Read More ▶             International groups move to criminalize fake drugs ▶ 02 March 2012     Regulations aim to shift medicine counterfeiting from patent infringement to crime. Read More ▶             Adding a twist to radio technology ▶ 02 March 2012     Spiralling radio waves could revolutionize telecommunications. Read More ▶             A tour of the US's clean energy future ▶ 01 March 2012     The third annual ARPA-e summit showcases potentially transformative energy technologies. Read More ▶             Giving waste water the power to clean itself ▶ 01 March 2012     A novel form of renewable energy can generate electricity from waste-water treatment. Read More ▶             Mars scientists propose landing sites for future rovers ▶ 01 March 2012     Planetary researchers rush to gather surface data before an ageing satellite stops working. Read More ▶             How marijuana makes you forget ▶ 01 March 2012     Drug affects previously overlooked brain cells that have a crucial role in memory formation. Read More ▶             Controversial bioethicist quits stem-cell company ▶ 01 March 2012     Glenn McGee resigns from CellTex Therapeutics after three months in the post. Read More ▶             North Korea suspends nuclear testing ▶ 29 February 2012     United States offers food aid in exchange for moratorium on uranium enrichment and weapons testing. Read More ▶             Seeing ourselves in the Moon's mirror ▶ 29 February 2012     Earthshine illuminates a way to detect life on exoplanets. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Embattled scientists publish study linking (surprise) diesel exhaust and cancer Advisor to National Children's Study quits Fishing with your face — sawfish bill skills Kansas biosafety lab risk miniaturized Virginia high court rejects case against Mann German vessel sets out to explore quake-struck seafloor off Japan Mesoscale physics buzz eludes exact definition Ray of hope in ITER cable crisis The people you thought mattered in 2011 Scientists exempted from tougher UK immigration rules 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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