Nature News highlights: 20 November 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     20 November 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Special Offer: Complete Cell Analysis and Cell Sorting Package For a limited time, $260,000 buys the new BD FACSJazz™ sorter, the BD Accuri™ C6 analyzer with BD CSampler™, high quality BD reagents for 2 years, an advanced biosafety cabinet, 2 workstations, and BD FACS™ Sortware and BD Accuri™ C6 software. Add up the savings - it equals unprecedented value. bdbiosciences.com/go/plus               • Featured               Special: The new map of science ▶       Today more nations – from China and India to Singapore, Brazil and South Korea – are taking their place at the high table of research alongside the traditional science superpowers. At the same time national boundaries are being transcended through collaboration networks and 'brain circulation'. In this special issue Nature examines how the movement of people and ideas will change how science is done, how it is funded and the questions that it addresses. Read More ▶                           Nature Medicine ePOSTER ON METABOLIC SYNDROME Published originally in 2011, the 2012 version of the ePoster features a new organ -- the pancreas -- plus updates for the existing organs to reflect key advances of the past year. www.nature.com/nm/poster Sponsored by Takeda               • Latest News               Quantum cryptography conquers noise problem ▶ 19 November 2012     Encoded photons sent a record distance along busy optical fibres. Read More ▶             Great apes go through mid-life crisis ▶ 19 November 2012     Survey hints at biological cause for middle-age blues. Read More ▶             The whiff of white could hide strong odours ▶ 19 November 2012     Complex mixtures of many odours tend to smell the same. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               How birds are used to monitor pollution ▶ 19 November 2012     Swallows and homing pigeons do their part for environmental surveillance. Read More ▶             Exoplanet hunter nears its end ▶ 16 November 2012     French-led mission discovered the first rocky exoplanet. Read More ▶             Human drugs make fish flounder ▶ 16 November 2012     Contraceptives and antidepressants can reduce fish reaction times and reproductive rates. Read More ▶             Leonardo fossil sketch may depict early nests ▶ 16 November 2012     A network of burrows formed half a billion years ago may may push back parenting by 200 million years. Read More ▶             Roaming robot may explore mysterious Moon caverns ▶ 16 November 2012     Spelunking rover could scout sites for lunar bases. Read More ▶             Snapshots explore Einstein’s unusual brain ▶ 16 November 2012     Photos reveal unique features of genius’s cerebral cortex. Read More ▶             Catapult showcases ultra-strong artificial muscles ▶ 16 November 2012     Carbon nanotubes soaked in paraffin wax flex and twist. Read More ▶             Misfolded protein transmits Parkinson’s from cell to cell ▶ 15 November 2012     Link between cell death and protein clumps opens pathway to possible treatment. Read More ▶             Brain scans of rappers shed light on creativity ▶ 15 November 2012     Functional magnetic resonance imaging shows what happens in the brain during improvisation. Read More ▶             Physicist elected to Congress calls for more scientists-statesmen ▶ 15 November 2012     Bill Foster, member-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives, wants more scientists in Congress who can bring to bear an analytical mind-set to lawmaking. Read More ▶             New Higgs results bring relief—and disappointment ▶ 15 November 2012     Latest data from Large Hadron Collider reveals no hints of new physics. 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