Nature News highlights: 20 October 2016

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20 October 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Fluorescence-Based Cell Biology Assays Cell Proliferation & Viability Assays - iClick™ EdU assays, AlamarBlue cell viability assays, LIVE-or-DIE™ cell viability/cytotoxicity assays, cell generation analysis, and more Cell Apoptosis Assays - TUNEL assays, caspase activity assays, annexin V binding assays, mitochondrial membrane potential assays, and more Cell Structure Probes - Cytoskeleton, nucleus, golgi complex, membrane, cytosol, mitochondria, lysosome, endoplasmic Learn more from webinar >>            NEURAL CIRCUITRY OF EMOTION Presented by: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS | McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT | Nature Neuroscience November 2-4, 2016 | Shenzhen, China REGISTER NOW!         • Latest News               Jupiter mission's computer glitch delays data-gathering ▶ 19 October 2016     Juno probe goes into safe mode hours before second fly-by of the giant planet. Read More ▶             Reports of 'three-parent babies' multiply ▶ 19 October 2016     Claims of infants created using mitochondrial-replacement techniques stir scientific and ethical debate. Read More ▶             Europe's probe feared lost on Mars ▶ 19 October 2016     Sister craft successfully enters Martian orbit but loses contact with Schiaparelli lander. Read More ▶                 nature.com webcasts Springer Nature presents a custom webcast on: uDISCO for whole organs and organisms: A new way of large sample imaging Date: Thursday October 27, 2016 Time: 8AM PDT, 11AM EDT, 4PM BST, 5PM CEST Register for FREE Sponsored by: Bitplane LaVision Biotech Andor Technology         • More Stories               Monkey 'tools' raise questions over human archaeological record  ▶ 19 October 2016     Capuchin monkeys in Brazil unintentionally produce rock fragments that resemble ancient stone tools. Read More ▶             @ScientistTrump will make science great again ▶ 19 October 2016     Florida ecologist uses a parody Twitter account as a way of highlighting issues in science and academia. Read More ▶             Green Climate Fund earmarks more than $1 billion for developing countries ▶ 19 October 2016     But UN flagship has handed out barely any money. Read More ▶             Effort to wrangle geoscience data faces uncertain future ▶ 19 October 2016     Five years in, the US EarthCube programme has struggled to deliver on its promises. Read More ▶             The polling crisis: How to tell what people really think ▶ 19 October 2016     This year's US presidential election is the toughest test yet for political polls as experts struggle to keep up with changing demographics and technology. Read More ▶             How Republicans reshaped the House science committee ▶ 19 October 2016     Chairman Lamar Smith has turned once-placid panel into investigative powerhouse. Read More ▶             Program good ethics into artificial intelligence ▶ 19 October 2016     Concerns that artificial intelligence will pose a danger if it develops consciousness are misplaced, says Jim Davies. Read More ▶             Mars excitement, campus riots and a freeze on refrigerants ▶ 18 October 2016     The week in science: 14–20 October 2016 Read More ▶             Mysterious origin of European bison revealed using DNA and cave art ▶ 18 October 2016     Threatened forest icon may be a hybrid of two extinct species. Read More ▶             The power of prediction markets ▶ 18 October 2016     Scientists are beginning to understand why these 'mini Wall Streets' work so well at forecasting election results — and how they sometimes fail. Read More ▶             The scientists who support Donald Trump ▶ 18 October 2016     Science policy fades into background for many who back Republican candidate in US presidential race. Read More ▶             Scientists up stakes in bet on whether humans will live to 150 ▶ 18 October 2016     Winner's descendants could scoop hundreds of millions of dollars by the middle of next century. 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