Nature contents: 20 September 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     Volume 489 Number 7416      nature •Visit Nature homepage •Subscribe to Nature •View Table of Contents The science that matters. Every week.                       Bridging the Gap between Structure and Biological Function Research in biosciences is increasingly focused on understanding the correlations between structure and function. Correlative investigations, combining fluorescence microscopy images with SEM images of the same region of interest offer great potential in this respect. Read about the interface for correlative microscopy Shuttle&Find and download two free white papers.             Jump to the content that matters to you View Table of Contents ▶ ▼ News & Comment   ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences   ▼ Careers & Jobs       This week's highlights     Biological Sciences More Biological sciences ▼   An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome   This high-resolution map of genome-wide gene expression, freely available at www.brain-map.org, allows comparisons between the brains of humans and other animals, and will be useful in studies of human neurological and psychiatric disease. An early observation from the data is a human-specific pattern for the calcium-binding protein CALB1 in the hippocampus compared to mouse and rhesus monkey.       Earth & Environmental Sciences More Earth & Environmental sciences ▼   Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils   Most climate models suggest that wetter soils promote higher atmospheric moisture content and favour the local development of storms. But this analysis of global precipitation data from a combination of weather satellites shows that afternoon precipitation is more likely over dry soil than over wet soil.       Biological Sciences More Biological sciences ▼   Spontaneous giving and calculated greed   Many people are willing to make sacrifices for the common good, but little is known about the cognitive mechanisms underlying such cooperative behaviour. This study uses a series of ten varied experimental designs to establish whether we are intuitively predisposed to cooperate or to act selfishly. And it seems our gut response is to cooperate, but given more time to think, self-interest undermines collective action and we become less generous.                   The new NanoZoomer-XR redefines the art of whole-slide imaging with hassle-free, error-free, and blur-free scanning. This high-throughput scanner quickly and automatically scans up to 320 slides. It is extremely easy to use, and offers accurate, error-free scanning and automatic quality checking. These features, coupled with an outstanding optics system and real-time dynamic focus, result in images of top tier quality and clarity.                 Podcast & Video     In this week's podcast: why we are cooperative by nature, transforming waste heat into electricity, and what the brain is doing when it's resting.         News & Comment Read daily news coverage▶ ▲top             THIS WEEK           Editorials                   Through the gaps ▶     A 20-year campaign of scientific fraud says as much about the research community as it does about the perpetrator. The system that allowed such deception to continue must be reformed.             Extreme weather ▶     Better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.             Return to sender ▶     The bid to halt air transport of lab animals poses an imminent threat to biomedical research.             World View                   Social networks can spread the Olympic effect ▶     The classic economic approach of using incentives is not always the best way to change human behaviour, argues Paul Ormerod.             Seven Days                   Seven days: 14–20 September 2012 ▶     The week in science: Japan to phase out nuclear power by 2030s, BGI buys into Complete Genomics, and archaeologists claim to have found the skeleton of English king Richard III.           NEWS IN FOCUS           Studies slow the human DNA clock ▶     Revised estimates of mutation rates bring genetic accounts of human prehistory into line with archaeological data.             Lab-animal flights squeezed ▶     Two biggest cargo carriers affirm that they will not ship mammals and non-human primates, as activist pressure mounts to stop research-animal airlifts.             Retraction record rocks community ▶     Anaesthesiology tries to move on after fraud investigations.             UK technology-boost plan disappoints ▶     Government strategy to support industries of the future has little cash to back the vision.             The hidden threat of West Nile virus ▶     Researchers probe possible link with kidney disease.             Nano-safety studies urged in China ▶     Exposure surveys and stronger regulations are required for the industry to thrive, researchers say.             Laser centre lights up eastern Europe ▶     European Union investment in high-energy-physics facility raises spirits in Romanian science community.             Features                   Forest fires: Burn out ▶     Forests in the American west are under attack from giant fires, climate change and insect outbreaks. Some ecosystems will never be the same.             Neuroscience: Idle minds ▶     Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all.           COMMENT           Agriculture: Plant perennials to save Africa's soils ▶     Integrating perennials with food crops could restore soil health and increase staple yields, say Jerry D. Glover, John P. Reganold and Cindy M. Cox.             Astronomy: The United States must rejoin the SKA ▶     Plans for the radio-telescope array must be firmed up to help Americans get back on board and ensure its success, say Anthony J. Beasley and Ethan J. Schreier.             Books and Arts                   Military Science: The USSR's deadly secret ▶     Tim Trevan weighs up an authoritative take on the Soviet Union's vast, covert and costly bioweapons programme.             Books in brief ▶             Q&A: Collision creator ▶     Julius von Bismarck is the first artist in residence at the particle-physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland. As he prepares to give the final lecture of his residency, he talks about whipping mountains, hacking photographs and digging into the history of invention.             Correspondence                   World poverty: Sustainability is key to development goals Manish Bapna | Realizing talent: Arab science must help itself Mustafa al'Absi | Preprint servers: no author fees Ilya Kapovich | Preprint servers: follow arXiv's lead Tommy Ohlsson | Renewables: Realizing Australia's bioenergy potential Luis C. Rodriguez, Alexander Herr & Michael H. O'Connor           Obituary                   Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) ▶     Engineer, pilot, astronaut and the first human to walk on the Moon.             Corrections                   Correction ▶             Correction ▶             Correction ▶                         Call for Research Proposals: Diseases of the Developing World The Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation selects and funds scientists to execute their research projects using the world-class facilities, equipment and compound libraries available at the Open Lab at GlaxoSmithKline's Tres Cantos Medicines Development Campus in Spain. Funding of up to $160,000 for each approved project is available. This call for proposals is hosted by InnoCentive - a brief proposal (2-4 pages is all that is required). Read the detailed brief and submit your proposal here!               Biological Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Latest Online                   Evolution: How the unicorn got its horn ▶     Heather Hendrickson & Paul B. Rainey             The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation  OPEN ▶     Guofan Zhang, Xiaodong Fang, Ximing Guo, Li Li, Ruibang Luo et al.     The sequencing and assembly of the highly polymorphic oyster genome through a combination of short reads and fosmid pooling, complemented with extensive transcriptome analysis of development and stress response and proteome analysis of the shell, provides new insight into oyster biology and adaptation to a highly changeable environment.             Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population ▶     Zachary D. Blount, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Carla J. Davidson & Richard E. Lenski     By combining full-genome sequencing and ‘evolutionary replay’ experiments to dissect the origin of aerobic citrate use in an experimental Escherichia coli population over 40,000 generations and 2 decades, the authors unveil a 3-step process in which potentiation makes a trait possible, actualization makes the trait manifest and refinement makes it effective.             Compensatory dendritic cell development mediated by BATF–IRF interactions ▶     Roxane Tussiwand, Wan-Ling Lee, Theresa L. Murphy, Mona Mashayekhi, Wumesh KC et al.     The roles of BATF transcription factors in dendritic cell differentiation are studied, providing evidence for molecular compensation by related family members; compensation is based on the interaction of the BATF leucine zipper domains with IRF factors to mediate cooperative gene activation.             Severe stress switches CRF action in the nucleus accumbens from appetitive to aversive ▶     Julia C. Lemos, Matthew J. Wanat, Jeffery S. Smith, Beverly A. S. Reyes, Nick G. Hollon et al.     The neuropeptide corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) acts in the nucleus accumbens of mice to increase dopamine release through coactivation of CRF receptor 1 (CRFR1) and CRFR2, but exposure to severe stress results in loss of this regulation and a switch in the reaction to CRF from appetitive to aversive.             BATF–JUN is critical for IRF4-mediated transcription in T cells ▶     Peng Li, Rosanne Spolski, Wei Liao, Lu Wang, Theresa L. Murphy et al.     The pleiotropic transcription factor IRF4 is shown to regulate CD4+ T-cell differentiation and TH17 function through cooperative binding interactions with BATF and JUN family proteins via AP1–IRF4 composite elements (AICEs).             Broad and potent neutralization of HIV-1 by a gp41-specific human antibody ▶     Jinghe Huang, Gilad Ofek, Leo Laub, Mark K. Louder, Nicole A. Doria-Rose et al.     A novel neutralizing antibody from a healthy HIV-1-infected donor that is specific for the membrane proximal region of gp41 is reported; the antibody has high potency and breadth, is not autoreactive and does not bind phospholipids.             Cross-neutralization of influenza A viruses mediated by a single antibody loop ▶     Damian C. Ekiert, Arun K. Kashyap, John Steel, Adam Rubrum, Gira Bhabha et al.     The crystal structure of an influenza antibody that recognizes a small, conserved site in the variable receptor-binding domain of HA is described; this antibody shows broad neutralization across multiple subtypes of influenza A virus through an antibody–antigen interaction dominated by a single heavy-chain complementarity-determining region 3 loop.             FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index ▶     Jian Yang, Ruth J. F. Loos, Joseph E. Powell, Sarah E. Medland, Elizabeth K. Speliotes et al.     A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of phenotypic variation for height and body mass index in human populations using 170,000 samples shows that one single nucleotide polymorphism at the FTO locus, which is associated with obesity, is also associated with phenotypic variation.             A FOXO3-IRF7 gene regulatory circuit limits inflammatory sequelae of antiviral responses ▶     Vladimir Litvak, Alexander V. Ratushny, Aaron E. Lampano, Frank Schmitz, Albert C. Huang et al.     FOXO3 is a negative regulator of IRF7, a master regulator of the antiviral response.             Articles and Letters                   Autistic-like behaviour in Scn1a+/− mice and rescue by enhanced GABA-mediated neurotransmission ▶     Sung Han, Chao Tai, Ruth E. Westenbroek, Frank H. Yu, Christine S. Cheah et al.     Haploinsufficiency of the gene SCN1A (SCN1A+/−) causes Dravet’s syndrome in humans, a form of epilepsy with autistic features; this paper shows that Scn1a+/− mice have the same symptoms, and that social behaviours can be improved by pharmacological treatment with clonazepam.             An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome ▶     Michael J. Hawrylycz, Ed S. Lein, Angela L. Guillozet-Bongaarts, Elaine H. Shen, Lydia Ng et al.     Laser microdissection and microarrays are used to assess 900 precise subdivisions of the brains from three healthy men with 60,000 gene expression probes; the resulting atlas allows comparisons between humans and other animals, and will facilitate studies of human neurological and psychiatric diseases.             Structural plasticity and dynamic selectivity of acid-sensing ion channel–spider toxin complexes ▶     Isabelle Baconguis & Eric Gouaux     Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are voltage-independent ion channels that participate in a broad range of biological processes, including nociception and mechanosensation; here X-ray crystal structures of the complexes of chicken ASIC1a with psalmotoxin, a peptide toxin from tarantula, indicate that toxin binding triggers an expansion of the extracellular vestibule and stabilization of the open channel pore.             Spontaneous giving and calculated greed ▶     David G. Rand, Joshua D. Greene & Martin A. Nowak     Economic games are used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying cooperative behaviour, and show that intuition supports cooperation in social dilemmas, whereas reflection can undermine these cooperative impulses.             Sex-specific volatile compounds influence microarthropod-mediated fertilization of moss ▶     Todd N. Rosenstiel, Erin E. Shortlidge, Andrea N. Melnychenko, James F. Pankow & Sarah M. Eppley     Volatile scents of moss Ceratodon purpureus show sex-specific differences and are similar in chemical diversity to those of plant–insect pollination mutualisms; and moss-dwelling microarthropods, whose presence increases C. purpureus fertilization rates, prefer scents of reproductive female C. purpureus to reproductive males, indicating a scent-based ‘plant–pollinator-like’ relationship between mosses and microarthropods.             Attention deficits without cortical neuronal deficits ▶     Alexandre Zénon & Richard J. Krauzlis     Transient inactivation of the superior colliculus in primates during a motion-change-detection task is shown to lead to large deficits in visual attention while the enhanced response of neurons in the visual cortex to attended stimuli remains unchanged; this shows that processes independent of those occurring in the visual cortex have key roles in visual attention.             Lrp4 is a retrograde signal for presynaptic differentiation at neuromuscular synapses ▶     Norihiro Yumoto, Natalie Kim & Steven J. Burden     Lrp4 acts bidirectionally and coordinates synapse formation by binding agrin, activating MuSK and stimulating postsynaptic differentiation, and functioning in turn as a muscle-derived retrograde signal that is necessary and sufficient for presynaptic differentiation.             Genome-wide association study indicates two novel resistance loci for severe malaria ▶     Christian Timmann, Thorsten Thye, Maren Vens, Jennifer Evans, Jürgen May et al.     A genome-wide association study in Ghana, West Africa, to identify genetic variants associated with malaria pathogenesis reveals two previously unknown loci on chromosomes 1 and 16.             A nuclear Argonaute promotes multigenerational epigenetic inheritance and germline immortality ▶     Bethany A. Buckley, Kirk B. Burkhart, Sam Guoping Gu, George Spracklin, Aaron Kershner et al.     Double-stranded RNA interference (RNAi) in Caenorhabditis elegans is heritable; here a genetic screen for factors required for RNAi inheritance identifies the nuclear-localized Argonaute gene hrde-1, which acts in the germ cells of progeny to promote multigenerational inheritance of silencing and, also, germline immortality.             Set2 methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 suppresses histone exchange on transcribed genes ▶     Swaminathan Venkatesh, Michaela Smolle, Hua Li, Madelaine M. Gogol, Malika Saint et al.     In yeast, histone H3 lysine 36 methylation can suppress the incorporation of acetylated histones by inhibiting histone exchange in transcribed genes, thus preventing spurious cryptic transcripts from initiating within open reading frames.             Structure of the haptoglobin–haemoglobin complex ▶     Christian Brix Folsted Andersen, Morten Torvund-Jensen, Marianne Jensby Nielsen, Cristiano Luis Pinto de Oliveira, Hans-Petter Hersleth et al.     This study reports the crystal structure of porcine haptoglobin in complex with haemoglobin at 2.9 Å resolution; this provides a structural basis of haptoglobin-mediated recognition of haemoglobin, and insight into the protective role of haptoglobin at the atomic level.             News & Views                   Neuroscience: Attention is more than meets the eye ▶     Alexandra Smolyanskaya & Richard T. Born             50 & 100 years ago ▶             Human behaviour: A cooperative instinct ▶     Simon Gächter             Evolutionary biology: Insects converge on resistance ▶     Noah K. Whiteman & Kailen A. Mooney             Evolution: How the unicorn got its horn ▶     Heather Hendrickson & Paul B. Rainey             Corrigendum                   Corrigendum: Mitochondrial DNA that escapes from autophagy causes inflammation and heart failure ▶     Takafumi Oka, Shungo Hikoso, Osamu Yamaguchi, Manabu Taneike, Toshihiro Takeda et al.             Erratum                   Erratum: Administration of vorinostat disrupts HIV-1 latency in patients on antiretroviral therapy ▶     N. M. Archin, A. L. Liberty, A. D. Kashuba, S. K. Choudhary, J. D. Kuruc et al.             Research Highlights                   Marine biology: Glowing is rare on the sea floor | Animal cognition: Parrots can make inferences | Neuroscience: Memory boost with sleep | Neuroscience: Social isolation thins neural sheath         NEWS & COMMENT           Through the gaps | Return to sender | Studies slow the human DNA clock | Lab-animal flights squeezed | Retraction record rocks community | The hidden threat of West Nile virus | Nano-safety studies urged in China | Forest fires: Burn out | Neuroscience: Idle minds | Agriculture: Plant perennials to save Africa's soils | Military Science: The USSR's deadly secret | Books in brief             More Biological Sciences ▶                         Confronting the Universe - 5 short films on physics At the 2012 Meeting of Nobel Laureates, we filmed five debates on issues that matter to the current generation of researchers. Watch the full series of films including this week's release A golden age? featuring John Mather and Brian Schmidt. nature.com/lindau/2012 Supported by Mars, Incorporated and published weekly from Sept 19th - Oct 10th               Chemical Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Articles and Letters                   Pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy powered by a free-electron laser ▶     S. Takahashi, L.-C. Brunel, D. T. Edwards, J. van Tol, G. Ramian et al.     A free-electron laser is used to power a pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer at 240 GHz, demonstrating a range of experimental possibilities such as the manipulation of spin-1/2 systems with 6-ns pulses and the measurement of ultrashort decoherence times.             High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures ▶     Kanishka Biswas, Jiaqing He, Ivan D. Blum, Chun-I Wu, Timothy P. Hogan et al.     Controlling the structure of thermoelectric materials on all length scales (atomic, nanoscale and mesoscale) relevant for phonon scattering makes it possible to increase the dimensionless figure of merit to more than two, which could allow for the recovery of a significant fraction of waste heat with which to produce electricity.             Set2 methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 suppresses histone exchange on transcribed genes ▶     Swaminathan Venkatesh, Michaela Smolle, Hua Li, Madelaine M. Gogol, Malika Saint et al.     In yeast, histone H3 lysine 36 methylation can suppress the incorporation of acetylated histones by inhibiting histone exchange in transcribed genes, thus preventing spurious cryptic transcripts from initiating within open reading frames.             Structure of the haptoglobin–haemoglobin complex ▶     Christian Brix Folsted Andersen, Morten Torvund-Jensen, Marianne Jensby Nielsen, Cristiano Luis Pinto de Oliveira, Hans-Petter Hersleth et al.     This study reports the crystal structure of porcine haptoglobin in complex with haemoglobin at 2.9 Å resolution; this provides a structural basis of haptoglobin-mediated recognition of haemoglobin, and insight into the protective role of haptoglobin at the atomic level.             News & Views                   Materials chemistry: Liposomes derived from molecular vases ▶     Cyrus R. Safinya & Kai K. Ewert             Materials science: The matryoshka effect ▶     Tom Nilges             Research Highlights                   Organic chemistry: Tagging molecules with fluorine         NEWS & COMMENT           Military Science: The USSR's deadly secret             More Chemical Sciences ▶               Physical Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Latest Online                   Quantum computation: Spinning towards scalable circuits ▶     Lee C. Bassett & David D. Awschalom             A single-atom electron spin qubit in silicon ▶     Jarryd J. Pla, Kuan Y. Tan, Juan P. Dehollain, Wee H. Lim, John J. L. Morton et al.     The coherent manipulation of an individual electron spin qubit bound to a single phosphorus donor atom in natural silicon provides an excellent platform on which to build a scalable quantum computer.             Articles and Letters                   Bose glass and Mott glass of quasiparticles in a doped quantum magnet ▶     Rong Yu, Liang Yin, Neil S. Sullivan, J. S. Xia, Chao Huan et al.     Magnetic quasiparticles in a doped quantum magnet are shown to be well suited for realizing and exploring the ‘glassy’ states that are predicted to emerge for interacting bosons in the presence of disorder.             A magnified young galaxy from about 500 million years after the Big Bang ▶     Wei Zheng, Marc Postman, Adi Zitrin, John Moustakas, Xinwen Shu et al.     Gravitationally magnified images of a faint galaxy from only 500 million years after the Big Bang suggest that galaxies of that age may be the dominant source of the radiation responsible for the re-ionization of the intergalactic medium.             Pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy powered by a free-electron laser ▶     S. Takahashi, L.-C. Brunel, D. T. Edwards, J. van Tol, G. Ramian et al.     A free-electron laser is used to power a pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer at 240 GHz, demonstrating a range of experimental possibilities such as the manipulation of spin-1/2 systems with 6-ns pulses and the measurement of ultrashort decoherence times.             High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures ▶     Kanishka Biswas, Jiaqing He, Ivan D. Blum, Chun-I Wu, Timothy P. Hogan et al.     Controlling the structure of thermoelectric materials on all length scales (atomic, nanoscale and mesoscale) relevant for phonon scattering makes it possible to increase the dimensionless figure of merit to more than two, which could allow for the recovery of a significant fraction of waste heat with which to produce electricity.             Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils ▶     Christopher M. Taylor, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Françoise Guichard, Phil P. Harris & Wouter A. Dorigo     Analysis of observations on six continents reveals a global preference for afternoon rain to fall on locally drier soils—contrary to the predictions of large-scale climate models, and suggesting that such models may exaggerate the occurrence of droughts.             News & Views                   Astronomy: Searching for the cosmic dawn ▶     Daniel Stark             Materials chemistry: Liposomes derived from molecular vases ▶     Cyrus R. Safinya & Kai K. Ewert             Materials science: The matryoshka effect ▶     Tom Nilges             Quantum computation: Spinning towards scalable circuits ▶     Lee C. Bassett & David D. Awschalom             Brief Communications Arising                   Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms ▶     Bin Wang, Shibin Xu & Liguang Wu             Evan et al. reply ▶     Amato T. Evan, James P. Kossin, Chul ‘Eddy’ Chung & V. Ramanathan             Corrigendum                   Corrigendum: ‘Big Bang’ tomography as a new route to atomic-resolution electron tomography ▶     Dirk Van Dyck, Joerg R. Jinschek & Fu-Rong Chen             Errata                   Erratum: Fractal morphology, imaging and mass spectrometry of single aerosol particles in flight ▶     N. D. Loh, C. Y. Hampton, A. V. Martin, D. Starodub, R. G. Sierra et al.             Erratum: Structured spheres generated by an in-fibre fluid instability ▶     Joshua J. Kaufman, Guangming Tao, Soroush Shabahang, Esmaeil-Hooman Banaei, Daosheng S. Deng et al.             Research Highlights                   Astrophysics: Stellar duo tests Einstein's theory | Nanotechnology: Bigger rings allow thinner nanotubes         NEWS & COMMENT           Nano-safety studies urged in China | Laser centre lights up eastern Europe | Astronomy: The United States must rejoin the SKA | Books in brief | Q&A: Collision creator | Preprint servers: no author fees Ilya Kapovich | Preprint servers: follow arXiv's lead Tommy Ohlsson | Neil Armstrong (1930–2012)             More Physical Sciences ▶               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲top             RESEARCH           Articles and Letters                   Oceanic nitrogen reservoir regulated by plankton diversity and ocean circulation ▶     Thomas Weber & Curtis Deutsch     Here, the feedback between marine nitrogen fixation and denitrification is shown to yield an oceanic nitrate deficit more than double its observed value in a model with realistic ocean circulation; this discrepancy can be resolved by accounting for diversity in the metabolic N:P requirements of plankton.             Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils ▶     Christopher M. Taylor, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Françoise Guichard, Phil P. Harris & Wouter A. Dorigo     Analysis of observations on six continents reveals a global preference for afternoon rain to fall on locally drier soils—contrary to the predictions of large-scale climate models, and suggesting that such models may exaggerate the occurrence of droughts.             News & Views                   50 & 100 years ago ▶             Brief Communications Arising                   Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms ▶     Bin Wang, Shibin Xu & Liguang Wu             Evan et al. reply ▶     Amato T. Evan, James P. Kossin, Chul ‘Eddy’ Chung & V. Ramanathan             Erratum                   Erratum: Fractal morphology, imaging and mass spectrometry of single aerosol particles in flight ▶     N. D. Loh, C. Y. Hampton, A. V. Martin, D. Starodub, R. G. Sierra et al.             Research Highlights                   Planetary science: Volcanic signs in Martian clays | Geology: One million years of rubbing rocks         NEWS & COMMENT           Extreme weather | Forest fires: Burn out | Agriculture: Plant perennials to save Africa's soils | Books in brief | Renewables: Realizing Australia's bioenergy potential Luis C. Rodriguez, Alexander Herr & Michael H. O'Connor | Neil Armstrong (1930–2012)           CAREERS           Turning point: David Shelly             More Earth & Environmental Sciences ▶                         Scientific Reports publishes 457 open access papers in its first year Publishing technically sound research articles, Scientific Reports is Nature Publishing Group’s fastest growing journal. Given the speed and visibility offered, no wonder 93% of our authors said that they are “likely” or “very likely” to submit again. Keep your research moving. 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