Nature News highlights: 02 December 2014

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02 December 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               • Featured               Nature Special: The great depression ▶       Depression causes a greater burden of disability than any other condition, yet it is widely undiagnosed and untreated. In this special collection, Nature provides a global view of the burden caused by the illness, and considers why it is so often ignored in medical research – what if depression were cancer? We also look at how science is unpicking how cognitive behavioural therapy works, and the future for psychiatric drug discovery. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Nature makes all articles free to view ▶ 01 December 2014     Publisher permits subscribers and media to share read-only versions of its papers. Read More ▶             Photons double up to make the invisible visible ▶ 01 December 2014     People have infrared vision — and it could be the result of pairs of photons combining their energies to appear as one 'visible' photon. Read More ▶             Investigations launched into artificial tracheas ▶ 28 November 2014     The Karolinska Institute is carrying out two inquiries into an experimental transplant procedure. Read More ▶                     • More Stories               Japanese asteroid probe delayed ▶ 28 November 2014     Thick cloud has postponed the launch of Hayabusa-2, which was scheduled to leave for a carbon-rich space rock on 30 November. Read More ▶             Bullet-proof armour and hydrogen sieve add to graphene's promise ▶ 27 November 2014     One-atom-thick material blocks 'bullet' strikes but allows protons to pass through. Read More ▶             US Ebola vaccine trial reports positive results ▶ 26 November 2014     A related vaccine is due to be tested in West Africa in 2015. Read More ▶             Immune system offers clues to cancer treatment ▶ 26 November 2014     Molecular signatures hint at who will benefit from next-generation cancer drugs. Read More ▶             Seven days: 21–27 November ▶ 26 November 2014     The week in science: Money woes for wave-power firm, ITER gets new leader and Turkish astrophysicist heads to jail. Read More ▶             Publishing: The peer-review scam ▶ 26 November 2014     When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes. Read More ▶             US–China climate deal raises hopes for Lima talks ▶ 26 November 2014     But challenges remain for United Nations meeting in run-up to a new 2015 emissions treaty. Read More ▶             Unpaid bills complicate EU science budget crisis ▶ 26 November 2014     A political impasse and a mounting pile of debts pose a threat to research in Europe. Read More ▶             Confusion over publisher's pioneering open-data rules ▶ 26 November 2014     The Public Library of Science's open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations. Read More ▶             Ocean observatory project hits rough water ▶ 26 November 2014     Problems with data management challenge US effort to monitor seas in real time. Read More ▶             US regulators move on thought-controlled prosthetics ▶ 26 November 2014     Robotic limb advances are attracting serious attention from the FDA. Read More ▶             Microbes help vultures eat rotting meat ▶ 26 November 2014     Gut bacteria and strong gastric juices show how the birds can live on decaying flesh. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Gates Foundation announces world's strongest policy on open access research Energy outlook sees continuing dominance of fossil fuels Private rocket explodes on launch to space station WHO plans for millions of doses of Ebola vaccine by 2015 US research ethics agency upholds decision on informed consent Western Australia abandons shark cull Fundamental overhaul of China's competitive funding AstraZeneca neither confirms nor denies that it will ditch antibiotics research More than half of 2007-2012 research articles now free to read Outbreak of great quakes underscores Cascadia risk more...                 nature.com webcasts Nature Publishing Group presents a custom webcast on: Complementing the genome: Epigenome wide studies to advance Wednesday, December 3, 2014 8AM PST, 11AM EST, 4PM GMT, 5PM CET Register for the webcast and live Q and A session. 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