Nature News highlights: 23 October 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     23 October 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       GOT AN IDEA BREWING? MAKE IT HAPPEN WITH A CATALYST GRANT OF UP TO $25K If you've got an idea that blends science with technology, we've got the funding and resources to make it happen. Find out more at digital-science.com/catalyst               • Featured               Special: Election 2012 ▶       Science and politics are uneasy bed-fellows. Nowhere is that relationship more fraught than in the United States, where the need to win votes can trump scientific evidence on issues such as climate change and public health - and where scientists have little sympathy for political give and take. Nature scrutinizes the intersection of politics and science in the run-up to the US election on Tuesday 6 November. Read More ▶                           High quality BD reagents are now more affordable Lower pricing on BD Biosciences reagents means that you don't have to sacrifice quality. Now the consistency and reliability of BD flow cytometry reagents are more affordable, including thousands of proven products and innovative new brilliant dyes. Find the right product for your needs here. bdbiosciences.com/reagents               • Latest News               Primates were always tree-dwellers ▶ 22 October 2012     Rare ankle bone fossil of oldest-known primate suggests it was arboreal. Read More ▶             Italian court finds seismologists guilty of manslaughter ▶ 22 October 2012     Six scientists and one official sentenced to six years in prison over L'Aquila earthquake. Read More ▶             The whale that talked ▶ 22 October 2012     Captive beluga was able to mimic speech (sort of). Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Australian research grants escape government cutbacks ▶ 22 October 2012     But universities are hit by cuts to overheads support. Read More ▶             Throw off the cloak of invisibility ▶ 22 October 2012     Improving Wikipedia entries for notable women scientists should be only the start for a higher profile for women in science, says Athene Donald. Read More ▶             Edit-a-thon gets women scientists into Wikipedia ▶ 22 October 2012     Royal Society hosts event to redress online encyclopaedia's gender imbalance. Read More ▶             Website pitches solutions in search of problems ▶ 22 October 2012     Marblar aims to help scientists turn discoveries into innovative applications. Read More ▶             Molecular analysis supports controversial claim for dinosaur cells ▶ 22 October 2012     New evidence adds heat to the argument over prehistoric dinosaur tissue. Read More ▶             The buzz about pesticides ▶ 21 October 2012     Common pesticides affect bumblebee foraging. Read More ▶             Scientists read dreams ▶ 19 October 2012     Brain scans during sleep can decode visual content of dreams. Read More ▶             Fossil scars capture dinosaur headbutts ▶ 19 October 2012     The way dome-skulled dinosaurs bashed heads may help tease apart juveniles from adults or one species from another. Read More ▶             Core sample sends carbon clock farther back in time ▶ 18 October 2012     Sediment from Japanese lake provides more accurate timeline for dating objects as far back as 50,000 years. Read More ▶             Proponent of supersolid helium joins sceptics ▶ 18 October 2012     Physicist Moses Chan, who in 2004 published evidence for supersolidity, explains how he came to doubt his own discovery. Read More ▶             Poachers gun down iconic ibis ▶ 18 October 2012     Set back for researchers as illegal hunters kill rare birds. Read More ▶             Disrupted sleep may predict Alzheimer's ▶ 18 October 2012     Poor sleep patterns linked to formation of Alzheimer's plaques. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Egg freezing enters clinical mainstream Nobel, Fields Medal winners launch campaign against EU research austerity Fish find way around polarization problem Did the Solar System start with an extra planet? Italian court says mobile phones cause cancer Ruth's Reviews: The Viral Storm Where US foreign doctorates go after they graduate Researchers issue animal-research transparency declaration Science panel urges halt to GM field trials in India Former Geron execs bid for abandoned stem cell program more...                           Academy of Military Medical Sciences - Celebrating 60 years of research at one of China's leading organizations for medical science. The Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) in Beijing has developed beyond its military heritage to become a world leader in medical science with a string of achievements in both military and civilian applications that have resonated around the globe. 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