Nature News highlights: 24 March 2016

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24 March 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Nature Outlook Cognitive Health This Nature Outlook investigates some of the strategies that can be used to keep our brains in top form when faced with social and biological factors that induce deterioration. Available free online. Produced with support from: Nestlé Research         • Featured               The circular economy ▶       In 'take, make and dispose' economics, objects of desire from skyscrapers to phones are trash waiting to happen. Now, linearity is reaching the end of the line. Governments, industries and designers are looking to the loop: production that redefines waste materials and energy as a resource, by breaking down and repurposing goods or supplying them as services. It is more sustainable and it creates jobs. So, what research is needed? Read More ▶                   Key Issues in Alzheimer's Disease - a community forum Nature Neuroscience presents a forum on Alzheimer's Disease research. ACCESS NOW to view videos of our panel event at SfN 2015, read related articles for free, and post questions for our editors and featured experts. Produced with support from Eli Lilly and Company and vTv Therapeutics         • Latest News               Prestigious Karolinska Institute dismisses controversial trachea surgeon ▶ 23 March 2016     Paolo Macchiarini says that he does not accept disciplinary-board findings. Read More ▶             The week in science: 18–24 March 2016 ▶ 23 March 2016     Public vote for unlikely research-ship name; China's gravitational-wave hunt progresses; and concerns about Great Barrier Reef. Read More ▶             Mammals face off in Twitter battles for supremacy ▶ 23 March 2016     The animal 'fights' of Mammal March Madness foster conversations about wildlife biology. Read More ▶                 Nature Outlook Urban Health & Well-Being This Nature Outlook explores some of the obstacles to a healthy, happy urban life - and the development of strategies to overcome them. Available free online Produced with support from: The Institute of Urban Environment, CAS;Zhongke DingShi Environmental Engineering;Ningbo Tianhe Aquatic Ecosystems;Huilv Landscape Construction         • More Stories               The black-hole collision that reshaped physics ▶ 23 March 2016     A momentous signal from space has confirmed decades of theorizing on black holes — and launched a new era of gravitational-wave astronomy. Read More ▶             The secret lives of jellyfish ▶ 22 March 2016     Long regarded as minor players in ocean ecology, jellyfish are actually important parts of the marine food web. Read More ▶             Scientists clash over lifespan of captive killer whales ▶ 22 March 2016     Two conflicting studies are at centre of row. Read More ▶             Set up a 'self-retraction' system for honest errors ▶ 22 March 2016     Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a genuine mistake, says Daniele Fanelli. Read More ▶             Massive network of robotic ocean probes gets smart upgrade ▶ 22 March 2016     Initiatives aim to measure global warming's impact on high seas and deep currents. Read More ▶             Excluded, intimidated and harassed: LGBT physicists face discrimination ▶ 22 March 2016     Transgender people are the most affected. Read More ▶             Australian cryptologists concerned by restrictive exports law ▶ 22 March 2016     Other scientists also say the need to get a permit for applied 'dual-use' research may constrain academic freedom. Read More ▶             Biological specimen troves threatened by funding pause ▶ 21 March 2016     Decision by US National Science Foundation could hamper research on conservation biology, climate change and invasive species. Read More ▶             Mobile-phone health apps deliver data bounty ▶ 21 March 2016     Smartphone programs allow researchers to recruit large numbers of participants and monitor them in real time. Read More ▶             Transgenic zebrafish forms technicolour 'skinbow' ▶ 21 March 2016     Fluorescent proteins used to track individual skin cells in real time. Read More ▶             Zika and birth defects: what we know and what we don't ▶ 21 March 2016     Experts fear a major epidemic of Zika-linked birth defects, but can't yet be sure. Read More ▶             China's carbon emissions could peak sooner than forecast ▶ 21 March 2016     Country's 13th Five-Year Plan advances a broad goal to phase down coal and expand renewable energy. Read More ▶                 npj Systems Biology and Applications is a new online, open access, multi- and cross- disciplinary journal dedicated to publishing finest research on systems biology and all its approaches. 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