Nature News highlights: 09 July 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     09 July 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               The new BD FACSAria™ Fusion  Exceptional multicolor performance and ease-of-use has been elegantly combined with the latest thinking in laboratory safety to create the most thoughtfully integrated cell sorting and biosafety solution on the market. Learn more about the fusion of safety, performance, and sorting today.  bdbiosciences.com/go/fusion         • Featured               Nature Special: The quantum atom ▶       One hundred years after Niels Bohr published his model of the atom, a special issue of Nature explores its legacy — and how much there is still to learn about atomic structure. This special includes articles on the history of Bohr's discovery; on the enigmatic nature of the electron; on the theoretical limits on atomic and nuclear size; and on how physicists are stretching, stripping and contorting atoms to new and bizarre limits. Read More ▶                   Alpha Delphini makes its maiden scientific voyage The oceanographic ship was built with the objective of increasing oceanographic research capacity in Brazil. Researchers discover how to increase shelf life of Amazon fruit Sign up for FAPESP's free weekly newsletter to know the latest developments of Brazilian science         • Latest News               China's coal burning cutting lives short by years ▶ 08 July 2013     Historical study links higher levels of pollution to higher mortality. Read More ▶             Mont Blanc growing with help from glaciers ▶ 08 July 2013     Icy shield prevents mountain from eroding away. Read More ▶             Bid to protect Antarctic waters gets second chance ▶ 08 July 2013     Proposals for two huge marine reserves back on the agenda at major international meeting. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Anger as Spanish funder claws back science money ▶ 05 July 2013     Research institutes' unused cash reserves wiped amid budget crisis. Read More ▶             Crowdsourcing may open up ocean science ▶ 05 July 2013     DIY ocean instrument could create 'citizen scientists' of the seas. Read More ▶             Mystery extra-galactic radio bursts could solve cosmic puzzle ▶ 04 July 2013     Ultrashort radio bursts from outside the Milky Way may help locate missing baryons. Read More ▶             Miniature human liver grown in mice ▶ 03 July 2013     Cells self-organize and grow into functional organs after transplantation. Read More ▶             Tissue engineering: How to build a heart ▶ 03 July 2013     With thousands of people in need of heart transplants, researchers are trying to grow new organs. Read More ▶             Seven days: 30 June–4 July 2013 ▶ 03 July 2013     The week in science: Dutch researcher settles case over fabricated data, two HIV patients on path to cure, and NIH retires nearly all research chimpanzees. Read More ▶             US Senate backs immigration plan ▶ 03 July 2013     Proposal would lift visa caps for US-trained scientists and engineers. Read More ▶             Biology must develop its own big-data systems ▶ 03 July 2013     Too many data-management projects fail because they ignore the changing nature of life-sciences data, argues John Boyle. Read More ▶             Hawkmoths zap bats with sonic blasts from their genitals ▶ 03 July 2013     The tropical moths produce ultrasound in response to bat sonar, which may serve as a warning or jam bat echolocation. Read More ▶             Evolution makes the grade ▶ 03 July 2013     Kansas, Kentucky and other states will also teach climate-change science. Read More ▶             Bioengineers look beyond patents ▶ 03 July 2013     Synthetic-biology company pushes open-source models. Read More ▶             China gears up to tackle tainted water ▶ 03 July 2013     Government is set to spend 500 million renminbi to clean up groundwater polluted by industry and agriculture. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. German cardiologist's stem-cell papers attacked Europe's politicians vote to resuscitate carbon market Management row threatens to blow Sahara solar dream NIH sees surge in open-access manuscripts Russian Academy gets temporary reprieve Dutch psychology fraudster avoids trial Voyager 1 is going, going, but not quite gone from the Solar System 'Liberated' mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions NIH retires most research chimpanzees Panel supports hepatitis C screening for baby boomers more...                   Nature Publishing Index 2012 Global The Nature Publishing Index (NPI) ranks institutions and countries according to the number of primary research articles they publish in the Nature family of journals in a one-year period. 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