Nature News highlights: 21 October 2014

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21 October 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               • Featured               Nature Special: Ebola ▶       Ebola is ravaging West Africa in the most severe outbreak since the virus was discovered in 1976. As researchers and health workers battle to contain the epidemic and treat those exposed, Nature brings you ongoing coverage of the crisis and the latest research on Ebola. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Italian seismologists fight to overturn convictions ▶ 20 October 2014     Six scientists and one official contend that they never reassured the public before deadly 2009 L'Aquila quake. Read More ▶             Comet buzzes Mars ▶ 20 October 2014     Mars orbiters emerge unscathed from planet's close encounter with comet Siding Spring. Read More ▶             Fossils rewrite history of penetrative sex ▶ 19 October 2014     Evidence of bony organs in ancient, armour-plated fish suggests that they copulated even though many of their descendants stopped doing so. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Physicists see potential dark matter from the Sun ▶ 17 October 2014     X-ray data hinting at axion particles draw interest and cautionary warnings. Read More ▶             Lockheed Martin's fusion goals meet scepticism ▶ 17 October 2014     Company claims it will have a working reactor in a decade. Read More ▶             Can quarantines and travel bans thwart Ebola? ▶ 17 October 2014     The rules in place to prevent pandemics vary from one US state to the next, and even more so between different countries. Read More ▶             Poisoned vulture could herald European bird crisis ▶ 16 October 2014     Death linked to drugs whose use in cattle devastated vulture populations in India. Read More ▶             US Dust Bowl unrivalled in past 1,000 years ▶ 16 October 2014     Atmospheric conditions and human actions combined to drive the 1930s mega-drought. Read More ▶             Scientists caught in Chinese anti-corruption sweep ▶ 16 October 2014     Researchers allegedly embezzled funding for science 'megaprojects'. Read More ▶             Atlantic observatory faces rocky future ▶ 16 October 2014     Mountaintop facility in Azores can track pollution from North America. Read More ▶             Surf zones warmed from within ▶ 15 October 2014     Friction in breaking waves has been an overlooked source of heat in coastal waters. Read More ▶             The university experiment: Campus as laboratory ▶ 15 October 2014     Innovative ways of teaching, learning and doing research are helping universities around the globe to adapt to the modern world. Read More ▶             How terror-proof is your economy? ▶ 15 October 2014     Scientists can help to develop a financial safety net by providing transparent market data and loss-impact analysis, says Erwann Michel-Kerjan. Read More ▶             Higher education: The university experiment ▶ 15 October 2014     Universities must evolve if they are to survive. A special issue of Nature examines the many ways to build a modern campus. Read More ▶             Arizona's big bet: The research rethink ▶ 15 October 2014     Arizona State University is trying to reinvent academia by tearing down walls between disciplines. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. White House suspends enhanced pathogen research Doctor bets against traditional Chinese medicine Australia puts science in ‘competitiveness’ drive Tragedy strikes Taiwanese research ship Stem-cell fraud makes for box office success UK launches space weather forecast centre European Commission: Tar sands no dirtier than other fuels Nanoscopy pioneers win Chemistry Nobel Spanish Ebola case highlights risks to health-care workers Work still needed to reduce animals in research more...                   Nature Outlook: Medical Research Masterclass From the basic functions of the cell to cures for HIV and cancer, Nature Outlook: Medical Research Masterclass uses the 2014 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting as a basis to explore the latest research in medicine and physiology. Access the Outlook free online for six months. Supported by Mars, Incorporated           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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