Nature News highlights: 8 October 2015

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08 October 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Nature Outlook Cannabis Cannabis is undergoing a resurgence of botanical and biomedical interest, spurred by claims of its therapeutic benefits. Yet research into these claims lags behind the legislation that allows medical marijuana use. Scientists are racing to fill this cannabis knowledge gap. Access the Outlook free online Produced with support from: GW Pharmaceuticals Plc.         • Latest News               Corals worldwide hit by bleaching ▶ 08 October 2015     Warm ocean waters combine with El Niño to turn reefs a stark white. Read More ▶             From speculation to surprise, science Twittersphere reacts to Nobel prizewinners ▶ 07 October 2015     Online responses ranged from wonder to disappointment. Read More ▶             The biggest mystery in mathematics: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof ▶ 07 October 2015     A Japanese mathematician claims to have solved one of the most important problems in his field. The trouble is, hardly anyone can work out whether he's right. Read More ▶                     • More Stories               How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop ▶ 07 October 2015     Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts. Read More ▶             The week in science: 2–8 October 2015 ▶ 07 October 2015     Medicine and physics Nobels awarded; world leaders unveil latest marine reserves; and three new neuroscience institutes funded. Read More ▶             CERN prepares to test revolutionary mini-accelerator ▶ 07 October 2015     Machines that 'surf' particles on electric fields could reach high energies at a lower price. Read More ▶             DNA repair sleuths win chemistry Nobel ▶ 07 October 2015     Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar share 2015 prize. Read More ▶             Turkish biomed hub spurs hope amid political strife ▶ 07 October 2015     Centre in Izmir swims against the tide to produce world-class fundamental science. Read More ▶             Gene-editing record smashed in pigs ▶ 06 October 2015     Researchers modify more than 60 genes in effort to enable organ transplants into humans. Read More ▶             Four challenges facing newly elected climate chief ▶ 06 October 2015     New leader of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Hoesung Lee, has a full in-tray. Read More ▶             Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials ▶ 06 October 2015     Potential pain treatments are struggling to prove their worth over a rising placebo effect seen in US trials. Read More ▶             Make vaccine coverage a key UN health indicator ▶ 06 October 2015     Track progress towards universal care using a wide-reaching intervention that all countries can readily measure, says Seth Berkley. Read More ▶             Morphing neutrinos win physics Nobel ▶ 06 October 2015     Demonstration by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald that neutrinos oscillate between identities showed that the particles have mass. Read More ▶             Anti-parasite drugs sweep Nobel prize in medicine 2015 ▶ 05 October 2015     Chinese pharmacologist Youyou Tu developed key antimalarial drug artemisinin. Read More ▶             India unveils climate-change pledge ahead of global talks ▶ 02 October 2015     Country seeks big cuts in carbon intensity and greater reliance on clean energy. Read More ▶                 Nature Plants: Call for Papers Nature Plants launched in January and covers all aspects of plants be it their evolution, genetics, development or metabolism, their interactions with the environment, or their societal significance. The journal welcomes high quality submissions and encourages you and your colleagues to consider submitting your next research paper to the journal.  Submit your next research paper to the journal.           Nature Milestones: Mass Spectrometry is a collaboration from Nature Methods, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Chemical Biology and Nature Protocols. Access the Milestone articles free online. The accompanying Collection articles will be made freely available for six months. Produced with support from: SCIEX Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 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