Nature News highlights: 24 September 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     24 September 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               BD Accuri™ C6 for Gene Expression Studies  Now there is a BD Accuri™ C6 designed to use the fruit series and yellow-green fluorescent proteins for gene expression studies. The system rapidly delivers quantifiable results using flow cytometry without requiring flow cytometry experience. Learn more about systems preconfigured precisely for your applications.  bdbiosciences.com/go/screen         • Featured               Outlook for Earth: Nature special issue on the IPCC ▶       In a special issue, Nature explores the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A graphic and a video show how climate science has evolved over the IPCC's 25-year history. A feature examines the latest research on rising sea levels and another profiles Ottmar Edenhofer, a leader of the IPCC's upcoming report on mitigation. In a Comment piece, Elliot Diringer proposes that individual actions by nations to tackle the causes of climate change can set the stage for international action. And K. John Holmes looks at the history of large-scale environmental assessments. Read More ▶                   Ants on Brazilian island have up to 12 queens per colony  The species Odontomachus hastatus establishes a hierarchy among its queens, adapting to local ecological conditions New method identifies families of asteroids with greater precision  Sign up for FAPESP's free weekly newsletter with the latest developments of Brazilian science         • Latest News               Empires, bureaucracies and religion arise from war ▶ 23 September 2013     Computer simulation shows that conflict fuelled political consolidation in ancient and medieval history. Read More ▶             Britain ponders scrapping 200-year-old census ▶ 23 September 2013     Potential overhaul would produce more frequent but less-detailed surveys. Read More ▶             Sleep therapy can change bad memories  ▶ 22 September 2013     Mitigating fears during sleep could help to ease anxieties felt when awake. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Universe may be curved, not flat ▶ 20 September 2013     Anomalies in relic radiation could contradict the evidence for a level cosmos. Read More ▶             Journal editors trade blows over toxicology ▶ 20 September 2013     Debate flares around European regulation of bisphenol A and other endocrine disrupters. Read More ▶             Russian academy leader speaks out on reforms ▶ 20 September 2013     Vladimir Fortov highlights the need for a clear separation between science and administration. Read More ▶             Earth's days are numbered ▶ 19 September 2013     Researchers calculate that the planet will leave the Sun's 'habitable zone' in about 1.75 billion years. Read More ▶             Antioxidants dispel static electricity ▶ 19 September 2013     Cheap coating helps electric charge to dissipate from plastics and rubber. Read More ▶             Missing methane gas mystifies Mars scientists ▶ 19 September 2013     Curiosity rover fails to detect previously recorded chemical in Martian atmosphere. Read More ▶             Vote seals fate of Russian Academy of Sciences ▶ 19 September 2013     Controversial law has critics fearing 'liquidation' of the nation's science. Read More ▶             Parasite makes mice lose fear of cats permanently ▶ 18 September 2013     Behavioural changes persist after Toxoplasma infection is cleared. Read More ▶             Stem cells made with near-perfect efficiency ▶ 18 September 2013     Elimination of single protein boosts reprogramming yield and consistency. Read More ▶             Climate science: Rising tide ▶ 18 September 2013     Researchers struggle to project how fast, how high and how far the oceans will rise. Read More ▶             IPCC: The climate chairman ▶ 18 September 2013     Getting hundreds of experts to agree is never easy. Ottmar Edenhofer takes a firm, philosophical approach to the task. Read More ▶             Climate assessments: 25 years of the IPCC ▶ 18 September 2013     A graphical tour through the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the science that underlies it. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Iranian student awarded human-rights prize while in prison $500 million cancer pledge comes with a catch Norway ditches large-scale carbon-capture plan EPA proposes emissions limits for new power plants Italian scientists protest proposed animal law Arctic sea-ice minimum is sixth smallest on record Private cargo mission launches to space station NIH approves first uses of HeLa genome CDC issues report on controlling antibiotic resistance European Research Council funds arXiv — a taste of changes to come more...                   nature.com webcasts Macmillan Science Communication presents a custom webcast on: A gel-free and blot-free western to identify biomarkers, evaluate clinical trials, and analyze drug pathways   Thursday September 26th 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST   Register for the free webcast followed by our live Q & A session    Sponsored by: ProteinSimple            Nature Neuroscience FOCUS ON NEUROTECHNIQUES   The rapid pace of technological innovation has opened up many new avenues for exploring the brain. 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