Nature News highlights: 30 September 2014

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30 September 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               • Featured               Nature Special: Diversity ▶       Embracing diversity – in all its forms – is key to good science. In this special, Nature and its sister publication Scientific American explore the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered scientists in the lab, and how neglecting to include participants from all ethnicities in clinical trials can endanger populations. We also cover how confronting economic inequalities within collaborations can strengthen global research, and how a more ethnically diverse team can have a positive impact on citation rate. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Quantum bits get their first compression ▶ 29 September 2014     Physicists show how to encode three quantum bits using just two photons. Read More ▶             Why Japan missed volcano's warning signs ▶ 29 September 2014     Mount Ontake's eruption killed at least 12 people. Could a better early-warning system have saved them? Read More ▶             Earth has water older than the Sun ▶ 26 September 2014     Not all water in the Solar System today could have formed here, researchers say. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Forensic chemistry could stop African plant thieves ▶ 26 September 2014     Isotope analysis could help in the rush to save South Africa's cycads from extinction. Read More ▶             Stone Age groups made similar toolmaking breakthroughs ▶ 25 September 2014     No mysterious migration required to explain how chipping technique appeared in different continents. Read More ▶             UN climate summit scores high on passion ▶ 25 September 2014     Challenge ahead is to ensure that the enthusiasm translates into firm commitments. Read More ▶             Force of nature gave life its asymmetry ▶ 25 September 2014     'Left-handed' electrons destroy certain organic molecules faster than their mirror versions. Read More ▶             Wet exoplanet has clear skies ▶ 24 September 2014     Neptune-sized orb is smallest alien world known to have water vapour. Read More ▶             Brazil warming to 'green' policies ▶ 24 September 2014     Activist Marina Silva is gaining ground in presidential polls. Read More ▶             Seven days: 19–25 September 2014 ▶ 24 September 2014     The week in science: NASA mission reaches Mars, Arctic sea-ice hits annual minimum, and extreme drought fuels California fires. Read More ▶             India joins elite Mars club ▶ 24 September 2014     The country's first mission to another world successfully enters the red planet's orbit. Read More ▶             Infectious disease: Ebola's lost ward ▶ 24 September 2014     A hospital in Sierra Leone has struggled to continue its research amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Read More ▶             Renewable energy: Wind power tests the waters ▶ 24 September 2014     The United States has plenty of strong winds offshore, but it has struggled to harness them for energy. Read More ▶             Istanbul canal needs environmental study ▶ 24 September 2014     Scientists must ensure that the ambitious plan of Turkey's president does not move forward without a thorough impact assessment, says Derin Orhon. Read More ▶             Cheap solar cells tempt businesses ▶ 24 September 2014     Easy-to-make perovskite films rival silicon for efficiency. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Animal populations 'have halved since 1970' CERN at 60: Biggest moments at flagship physics lab French scientists begin three-week protest march Obama vastly expands Pacific reserve Nobel laureates call for release of Iranian physicist Possible space weather role in downing of US copter US announces rules for potential bioterror agents Sea-ice trends are poles apart Ahead of UN summit, chances dwindle to keep warming at bay Ephemeral superheavy atoms coaxed into exotic molecules more...                   A picture of health In a series of four films reporter Lorna Stewart travels to the German island of Lindau to meet 600 of science’s brightest young minds and 37 rock stars – Nobel laureates. 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