Nature News highlights: 17 December 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     17 December 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               Special Issue: New angles on the brain ▶       In this neuroscience special, Nature brings together reporting and expert opinion on efforts to apply current technologies and invent new ones to probe how the brain works. Articles cover the uncertainty around President Obama's BRAIN initiative; computer chips inspired by human neuron networks; new techniques to create models of neurological disease in monkeys; a neuroscientist's experience of studying the progress of Parkinson's — in himself, and much more. Read More ▶                   BD Accuri™ C6 for teaching-institution labs It's easy to learn and operate, powerful enough for the majority of routine flow applications, transportable, and affordably priced. The BD Accuri C6 is perfectly suited for demanding educational environments requiring flexibility for personal research, student mastery, and core lab use. bdbiosciences.com/go/learn         • Latest News               Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago ▶ 16 December 2013     Base-2 system helped to simplify calculations centuries before Europeans rediscovered it. Read More ▶             News: Readers' choice of 2013 ▶ 16 December 2013     The 10 most-read news stories of the year. Read More ▶             China lands rover on Moon ▶ 15 December 2013     Spacecraft touches down successfully, but not where expected Read More ▶               • More Stories               Caribou genetics reveal shadow of climate change ▶ 15 December 2013     Ancient ice ages that shaped modern caribou populations may foretell animals' fate in a warmer world. Read More ▶             Scientists search for clues in sea star die-off ▶ 13 December 2013     Outbreak has devastated several species along North America's Pacific coast this year. Read More ▶             Cosmologists at odds over mysterious anomalies in data from early Universe ▶ 13 December 2013     Planck satellite's picture of cosmic microwave background needs correction, some researchers argue. Read More ▶             Australian shark-cull plan draws scientists' ire ▶ 13 December 2013     Baited hooks in Western Australia could damage vulnerable white shark populations. Read More ▶             NASA's chief scientist on Mars, moons and money ▶ 13 December 2013     Ellen Stofan looks to send scientists to the red planet. Read More ▶             Medics should plan ahead for incidental findings ▶ 12 December 2013     US bioethics commission weighs in on debate over how scientists and companies should handle inadvertent discoveries in diagnostic tests. Read More ▶             Hormone used for doping is made from scratch ▶ 12 December 2013     But decade-long quest to synthesize erythropoietin has not yet ended, critics say. Read More ▶             Hubble spots water spurting from Europa ▶ 12 December 2013     Space telescope observes possible plumes emanating from mystery moon's south pole. Read More ▶             Twitter buzz about papers does not mean citations later ▶ 12 December 2013     Analysis of science on social media service finds little correlation with standard measures of academic success. Read More ▶             US budget deal would ease science agencies' pain ▶ 11 December 2013     Congress readies plan to end mandatory cuts until 2016. Read More ▶             Why lizards may inherit the Earth ▶ 11 December 2013     Monitor lizards extract oxygen both when they inhale and exhale, perhaps explaining why they are so successful. Read More ▶             Earth is only just within the Sun's habitable zone ▶ 11 December 2013     Climate model suggests exoplanets that can host life are less prevalent than thought. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. 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